AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Ryzen 7 2700 vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Ryzen 7 2700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 2700. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 2700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 74F3. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.