Comparison of AMD Epyc 7501 and Intel Xeon E5-2658 v3

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7501 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2658 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon E5
Model	AMD Epyc 7501	Intel Xeon E5-2658 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	32	12
Frequency (GHz)	2	2.2
CPU Threads	64	24
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3	2.9
Turbo (12 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.5
Turbo (32 Cores) (GHz)	2.6	-
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	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	128	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	8	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2014
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	SP3	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	64	30
Architecture	Zen	Haswell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	180	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	31,250	16,298
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	132	112
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	3,912	1,595
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.63	1.39
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	39.63	16.25
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,528	3,013
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	68,033	33,900