Comparison of AMD Epyc 7742 and Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7742 ×	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon E7
Model	AMD Epyc 7742	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	64	15
Frequency (GHz)	2.25	2.3
CPU Threads	128	30
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.4	2.9
Turbo (15 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.9
Turbo (64 Cores) (GHz)	2.8	-
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	DDR3-1600
PCIe lanes	128	-
PCIe version	4.0	-
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	8	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2014
Technology (Nm)	7	22
Socket	SP3	LGA 2011
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	256	30
Architecture	Rome (Zen 2)	Ivy Bridge EX
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	225	130
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	47,359	10,207
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	398	151
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	20,644	1,765