Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD 9 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

4823 points

5669 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

7130 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

5211 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

5104 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

136.28 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

11% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

11% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

3.19 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

4.5 MiB

79% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

Is Unlocked

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Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 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 E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The EPYC 74F3 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.