Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the EPYC 74F3 that has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. A Xeon E5-2680 v2 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.

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 Xeon E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.