Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. A Xeon E5-2697A v4 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. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the EPYC 74F3.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.