Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 255.59
$ 2143.36 significantly less expensive
$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5860 points
3% slightly better overall score
5669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points
7130 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
5104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
136.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points
12689 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points
1438 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
55% significantly more cores
9

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
55% significantly more threads
18

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

145 W
65% significantly lower TDP
240 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 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 E5-2697 v3. A Xeon E5-2697 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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