Comparison of AMD Epyc 7702P and Intel Core i9-10980XE

Attribute	Intel Core i9-10980XE ×	AMD Epyc 7702P ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Core i9	AMD Epyc
Model	Intel Core i9-10980XE	AMD Epyc 7702P
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	18	64
Frequency (GHz)	3	2
CPU Threads	36	128
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.8	3.35
Turbo (18 Cores) (GHz)	4.3	-
Turbo (64 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.5
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	DDR4-2933	DDR4-3200
Max. Memory (GB)	256	-
PCIe lanes	48	128
PCIe version	3.0	4.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	8
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2019
Technology (Nm)	14	7
Socket	LGA 2066	SP3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	24	256
Architecture	Cascade Lake	Rome (Zen 2)
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	86	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	200
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	34,165	45,977
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,174	782
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	15,841	11,451
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	211	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	3,800	-
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	480	391
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	8,848	18,857
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	74.9	-
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)	1,191	996
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)	24,309	49,035