AMD EPYC 74F3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

EPYC 74F3 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 9 cores found in the EPYC 74F3. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 outputs less heat than EPYC 74F3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the EPYC 74F3.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.