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

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 ×	AMD Epyc 7401P ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E5	AMD Epyc
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4	AMD Epyc 7401P
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	18	24
Frequency (GHz)	2.3	2
CPU Threads	36	48
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.6	3
Turbo (18 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	DDR4-2400	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)	45	64
Architecture	Broadwell EP	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	21,435	20,221
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	737	694
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8,903	7,268
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	150	132
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,658	3,156
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	257	-
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	5,697	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.83	1.63
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	32.74	31.96
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,231	3,528
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	66,654	54,859