Comparison of AMD Epyc 7251 and Intel Core i5-9500F

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7251 ×	Intel Core i5-9500F ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Core i5
Model	AMD Epyc 7251	Intel Core i5-9500F
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	2.1	3
CPU Threads	16	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.9	4.4
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	4
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2.9	-
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	DDR4-2666	DDR4-2666
Max. Memory (GB)	-	128
PCIe lanes	128	16
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	8	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2019
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	SP3	LGA 1151-2
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	32	9
Architecture	Zen	Coffee Lake Refresh
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	-	100
TDP (PL1) (W)	120	65
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	11,809	12,449
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	128	182
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,093	1,016
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.57	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11.04	-
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,410	4,944
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	18,947	21,436