Comparison of AMD Epyc 7401 and Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7401 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon E5
Model	AMD Epyc 7401	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	24	16
Frequency (GHz)	2	2.6
CPU Threads	48	32
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3	3.6
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.8
Turbo (24 Cores) (GHz)	2.8	-
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)	64	40
Architecture	Zen	Broadwell EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	170	145
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	20,221	22,462
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	132	150
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	3,156	2,381
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.63	1.83
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	31.96	29.34
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,528	4,240
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	54,859	59,730