AMD EPYC 9554 vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8351N. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD EPYC 9004 Intel Xeon Platinum 8300
• Family
  AMD EPYC Intel Xeon Platinum
• Generation
  4 3
• 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
  3.1 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  64x Zen 4 -
• CPU Cores
  64 36
• CPU Threads
  128 72
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.75 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (64 Cores)
  3.75 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (36 Cores)
  - 2.7 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 Intel Xeon Platinum 8351N and AMD EPYC 9554. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 6144 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  461 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  12 8
• Memory type
  DDR5-4800 DDR4-2933
• PCIe
  5.0 x 128 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 64
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD EPYC 9554 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8351N 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)
  360 W 225 W
• TDP down
  320 W -
• TDP up
  400 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD EPYC 9554 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8351N, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Genoa (Zen 4) Ice Lake
• Chip design
  Chiplet -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  64 MB -
• L3-Cache
  256 MB 54 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11 -
• Part Number
  100-000000790 -
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q2/2021
• Release price
  9087 $ -
• Socket
  SP5 LGA 4189
• Technology
  5 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d