Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 vs AMD EPYC 3201

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 and AMD EPYC 3201 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1754 vs 1564
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 vs 1564

Reasons to consider the AMD EPYC 3201

  • Around 103233% higher clock speed: 3100 MHz vs 3.00 GHz
  • Around 9% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 87.025°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 85 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 8672 vs 8447
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3100 MHz vs 3.00 GHz
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 87.025°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 85 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 8672 vs 8447

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3
CPU 2: AMD EPYC 3201

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1754
1564
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
8447
8672
Name Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD EPYC 3201
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 1564
PassMark - CPU mark 8447 8672

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD EPYC 3201

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Zen
Launch date Q3'14 21 February 2018
Place in performance rating 1350 1491
Processor Number E5-2628 V3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family 3000
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Embedded
Family EPYC Embedded

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.50 GHz 1500 MHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 87.025°C 95 °C
Maximum frequency 3.00 GHz 3100 MHz
Number of cores 8 8
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 8 8
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
L1 cache 768 KB
L2 cache 4 MB
L3 cache 16 MB

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 68.3 GB/s 34.1 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
ECC memory support

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 BGA (SP4r2)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 30 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40 32
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16 x16, x8, x4, x2
Scalability 2S
Integrated LAN
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports 8
Number of USB ports 4
UART
USB revision 3.0

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Secure Boot

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring
AMD SenseMI
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)