AMD EPYC 74F3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Compare AMD 9 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5669 points
5922 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7130 points
9414 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5211 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
4857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5104 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
4631 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.28 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
121.07 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12689 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9727 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1438 points
2431 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

9
12% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

18
125% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.19 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4.5 MiB
14 MiB
211% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 1,089
257th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-8533

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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EPYC 74F3 vs Core Ultra 7 256V benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core Ultra 7 256V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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