AMD EPYC 74F3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

EPYC 74F3 vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 is faster than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has slightly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has 12 cores compared to 9 cores found in the EPYC 74F3. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. The Xeon E5-2687W 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. In terms of cache, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. The EPYC 74F3 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.