Comparison of AMD Epyc 7281 and Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 ×	AMD Epyc 7281 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E5	AMD Epyc
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4	AMD Epyc 7281
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	12	16
Frequency (GHz)	3	2.2
CPU Threads	24	32
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	2.7
Turbo (12 Cores) (GHz)	3.2	-
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	DDR4-2400	DDR4-2666
PCIe lanes	40	128
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	8
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2017
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 2011-3	SP3
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	30	32
Architecture	Broadwell EP	Zen
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	160	170
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	19,863	13,293
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	146	119
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,043	2,033
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.79	1.46
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	25.17	20.61
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,136	3,175
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	51,232	35,367