Comparison of AMD Epyc 7601 and Intel Xeon Gold 5120

Attribute	AMD Epyc 7601 ×	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Epyc	Intel Xeon Gold
Model	AMD Epyc 7601	Intel Xeon Gold 5120
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	32	14
Frequency (GHz)	2.2	2.2
CPU Threads	64	28
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.2	3.2
Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.6
Turbo (32 Cores) (GHz)	2.7	-
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	48
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	8	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2017
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	SP3	LGA 3647
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	64	19
Architecture	Zen	Skylake SP
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	33,500	18,250
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	141	139
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	4,068	2,015
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	307	298
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	7,445	4,344
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.73	1.64
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	41.21	22.15
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,763	3,578
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	70,747	37,851