AMD EPYC 7F52 vs Intel Core i9-9980XE

AMD EPYC 7F52
AMD Socket SP3SERVER
3500 MHz / Cores: 16 / Apr 2020
AMD EPYC 7F52
Intel Core i9-9980XE
Intel Socket 2066DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 18 / Oct 2018
Intel Core i9-9980XE

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD EPYC 7F52

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i9-9980XE

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Core i9-9980XE

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i9-9980XE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
MMX
EMMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4A
AVX
AVX2
ABM
BMI1
BMI2
FMA3
AES
RdRand
SHA
ADX
CLMUL
F16C
Real
Protected
SMM
FPU
NX bit
SMT
AMD-Vi
AMD-V
SME
TSME
SEV
SenseMi
Boost 2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
Boost 2.0
Boost 3.0

Architecture

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Skylake
MarketServervsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-3200 MHz Eight-channelvsDDR4
CodenameRomevsSkylake-X
Release DateApr 2020vsOct 2018

Cores

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
Cores16vs18
Threads32vs36
SMPs2vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64K (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs1MB (per core)
L3 Cache256MB (shared)vs24.75MB (shared)

Physical

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
SocketAMD Socket SP3vsIntel Socket 2066
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageFCLGA-4094vsFC-LGA2066
Die Size74mm²vsunknown
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD EPYC 7F52Intel Core i9-9980XE
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3000 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs4500 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP155 Wvs165 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD EPYC 7F52
    4368 points
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    5175 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD EPYC 7F52
    76518 points
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    75141 points

Points - higher is better