Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 9 cores found in the EPYC 74F3. 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 E5-2690 v2. A Xeon E5-2690 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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.