AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.