Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel 12 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

5240 points

5669 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

7130 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5238 points

0.52% slightly better multitasking score

5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5217 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

5104 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.15 points

136.28 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4084 points

12689 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

534 points

1438 points

169% significantly 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

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

320th of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.