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Intel Xeon 678X vs AMD EPYC 7742

	CPU Intel Xeon 678X	CPU AMD EPYC 7742
General Parameters
Release Date	Feb 2026	Aug 2019
Manufacturer	Intel	AMD
Type	Server	Server
Core Architecture	Granite Rapids	Rome
Integrated Graphics	N/A	N/A
Generation	Xeon 600 (Granite Rapids-WS)	EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))
Series	Intel Xeon 6 processors
Package
Manufacturing Process	5 nm	7 nm
Socket	Intel Socket 4710	AMD Socket SP3
Power Consumption	300 W	225 W
Peak Operating Temperature	98°C
Foundry	Intel	TSMC
Die Size	2x598 mm²	74 mm²
I/O Process Size	10 nm
I/O Die Size	2x 241
Package	FC-LGA18N	FCLGA-4094
Transistor Count		3.8 billions
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	48
Performance Core Threads	96
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	2.25 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.9 GHz	3.4 GHz
Total Core Count	48	64
Total Thread Count	96	128
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24.0	22.5
L1 Cache	112 KB per core	96 K per core
L2 Cache	2 MB per core	512 K per core
L3 Cache	192 MB shared	256 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1	2
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-6400	DDR4-3200
Max Memory Size	4 TB
Max Memory Channels	8	8
Max Memory Bandwidth	409.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	Yes
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5	4
PCIe Lanes	128
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2986	404
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	34711	170