Intel Xeon Gold 5118 vs AMD Epyc 7542. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 AMD Epyc 7002
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold AMD Epyc
• Generation
  1 2
• 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
  2.3 GHz 2.9 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 32
• CPU Threads
  24 64
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  2.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  - 3.2 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 7542 and Intel Xeon Gold 5118. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 8
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  48 128
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 5118 and AMD Epyc 7542 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)
  105 W 225 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 5118 and AMD Epyc 7542, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Skylake Rome (Zen 2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  17 MB 128 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2019
• Socket
  LGA 3647 SP3
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM