| Attribute |
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 × | 
AMD Epyc 7351 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | AMD |
| Series | Intel Xeon E5 | AMD Epyc |
| Model | Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 | AMD Epyc 7351 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 14 | 16 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| CPU Threads | 28 | 32 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.6 | 2.9 |
| Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz) | 3.1 | - |
| Turbo (16 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 | DDR4-2133 | DDR4-2666 |
| PCIe lanes | 40 | 128 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | + | + |
| Memory channels | 4 | 8 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2014 | 2017 |
| Technology (Nm) | 22 | 14 |
| Socket | LGA 2011-3 | SP3 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 35 | 64 |
| Architecture | Haswell E | Zen |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 145 | 170 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 21,425 | 18,140 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 805 | - |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 9,541 | - |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 139 | 128 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 2,306 | 2,184 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | - | 296 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | - | 4,728 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.73 | 1.57 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 23.5 | 22.14 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 3,740 | 3,410 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 49,042 | 38,001 |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 741 | - |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 19,409 | 17,401 |