Comparison of AMD Epyc 7251 and Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7251 ×	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon E3
Model	AMD Epyc 7251	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	4
Frequency (GHz)	2.1	3.6
CPU Threads	16	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.9	4
Turbo (4 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	DDR3-1600
PCIe lanes	128	-
PCIe version	3.0	-
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	8	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2013
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	SP3	LGA 1150
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	32	8
Architecture	Zen	Haswell
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	120	82
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	11,809	10,260
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	128	162
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,093	770
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.57	1.81
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11.04	8.21
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,410	3,675
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	18,947	14,520