Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Epyc 7702. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 AMD Epyc 7002
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Epyc
• Generation
  6 2
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 -
• 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
  2.6 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  14 64
• CPU Threads
  28 128
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 3.35 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (14 Cores)
  3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (64 Cores)
  - 2.5 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 7702 and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 8
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  40 128
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 and AMD Epyc 7702 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  135 W 200 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 and AMD Epyc 7702, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Broadwell E Rome (Zen 2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  35 MB 256 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2019
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 SP3
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM