Comparison of AMD Epyc 7281 and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7281 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon E5
Model	AMD Epyc 7281	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	16	14
Frequency (GHz)	2.2	2
CPU Threads	32	28
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.7	3.2
Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.4
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	2.7	-
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	DDR4-2400
PCIe lanes	128	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	8	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2016
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	SP3	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	32	35
Architecture	Zen	Broadwell EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	170	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	13,293	16,880
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	119	133
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,033	1,774
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.46	1.62
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	20.61	21.85
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,175	3,759
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	35,367	44,475