Comparison of AMD Epyc 7501 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8168

Attribute	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 ×	AMD Epyc 7501 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon Platinum	AMD Epyc
Model	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168	AMD Epyc 7501
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	24	32
Frequency (GHz)	2.7	2
CPU Threads	48	64
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.7	3
Turbo (24 Cores) (GHz)	3	-
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	DDR4-2666
PCIe lanes	48	128
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	6	8
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2017
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 3647	SP3
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	33	64
Architecture	Skylake SP	Zen
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	205	180
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	29,131	31,250
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	161	132
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	4,002	3,912
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.9	1.63
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	43.99	39.63
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,142	3,528
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	75,176	68,033