Comparison of AMD Epyc 7662 and Intel Core i9-9800X

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7662 ×	Intel Core i9-9800X ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Core i9
Model	AMD Epyc 7662	Intel Core i9-9800X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	64	8
Frequency (GHz)	2	3.8
CPU Threads	128	16
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.3	4.5
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	4.2
Turbo (64 Cores) (GHz)	2.4	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-3200	DDR4-2666
Max. Memory (GB)	-	128
PCIe lanes	128	44
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	8	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2020	2018
Technology (Nm)	7	14
Socket	SP3	LGA 2066
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	256	17
Architecture	Rome (Zen 2)	Skylake
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	-	95
TDP (PL1) (W)	225	165
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	44,977	19,787
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	-	196
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	-	1,850
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	386	455
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	18,203	4,338