Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD EPYC 74F3

Price

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$ 415.02

$ 1983.93 significantly less expensive

$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points

5669 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

7130 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

5104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

136.28 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points

12689 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1438 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.19 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

77% significantly lower TDP

240 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has slightly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 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 E5-2690 v3. A Xeon E5-2690 v3 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.