Intel Xeon E7-4880 v2 vs AMD EPYC 9654. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E7 v2 AMD EPYC 9004
• Family
  Intel Xeon E7 AMD EPYC
• Generation
  4 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.5 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  15 96
• CPU Threads
  30 192
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.1 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (15 Cores)
  3.1 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 96x Zen 4
• Turbo Frequency (96 Cores)
  - 3.55 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD EPYC 9654 and Intel Xeon E7-4880 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 6144 GB
• Memory channels
  4 12
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR5-4800
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 461 GB/s
• PCIe
  - 5.0 x 128

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E7-4880 v2 and AMD EPYC 9654 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  130 W 360 W
• TDP down
  - 320 W
• TDP up
  - 400 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E7-4880 v2 and AMD EPYC 9654, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EX Genoa (Zen 4)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI
• L2-Cache
  - 96 MB
• L3-Cache
  38 MB 384 MB
• Part Number
  - 100-000000789
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q4/2022
• Socket
  LGA 2011 SP5
• Technology
  22 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Chip design
  - Chiplet
• Documents
  - Technical data sheet
• Operating systems
  - Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11
• Release price
  - 11805 $