Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Xeon X5680 vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 74F3. A Xeon X5680 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.