AMD EPYC 7742 vs AMD EPYC 7702P

Comparative analysis of AMD EPYC 7742 and AMD EPYC 7702P processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD EPYC 7742

  • Around 1% higher clock speed: 3.4 GHz vs 3.35 GHz
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2142 vs 2110
  • Around 52% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 96766 vs 63633
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3.4 GHz vs 3.35 GHz
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2142 vs 2110
PassMark - CPU mark 96766 vs 63633

Reasons to consider the AMD EPYC 7702P

  • Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD EPYC 7742
CPU 2: AMD EPYC 7702P

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2142
2110
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
96766
63633
Name AMD EPYC 7742 AMD EPYC 7702P
PassMark - Single thread mark 2142 2110
PassMark - CPU mark 96766 63633
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 779
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 11436

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD EPYC 7742 AMD EPYC 7702P

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen 2 Zen 2
Launch date 7 Aug 2019 7 Aug 2019
Place in performance rating 97 680
Vertical segment Server Server
Family EPYC
Launch price (MSRP) $4425
Processor Number 7702P

Performance

Base frequency 2.25 GHz 2 GHz
L1 cache 4 MB 4 MB
L2 cache 32 MB 32 MB
L3 cache 256 MB 256 MB
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm, 14 nm
Maximum frequency 3.4 GHz 3.35 GHz
Number of cores 64 64
Number of threads 128 128
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Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 8 8
Maximum memory bandwidth 190.7 GB/s 190.7 GB/s
Maximum memory size 4 TB 4 TB
Supported memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 1
Sockets supported SP3 SP3
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 200 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 128 128
PCI Express revision 4.0 4.0
PCIe configurations x16, x8 x16, x8

Advanced Technologies

AMD SenseMI
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)