Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Intel Rival Quad Intel Xeon 8180M
AMD EPYC 7742, which comes out punching with 64 cores and 128 threads, and the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M with its 28 cores and 56 threads. Each EPYC 7742 costs $6,950 each Xeon Platinum 8180M goes for $13,011. So two EPYC 7742 cost you $13,900 and four Xeon Platinum 8180M sets you back $52,044. You’re getting 24.83% more performance while costing 73.29% less.
Patrick Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief at ServeTheHome, recently set a new world record on Geekbench 4 with pair of AMD EPYC 7742 processors. The publication also compared the pair of EPYC 7742 chips against four Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M processors, with the AMD system being the clear winner, Tomshardware reports. The AMD system consists of two EPYC 7742 and tallies up to 128 cores and 256 threads while the Intel system has four Xeon Platinum 8180M for a total of 112 cores and 224 threads.
| Model | Price (USD) |
Cores / Threads |
TDP |
Base Clock |
Boost Clock |
L3 Cache |
PCIe Lanes |
Memory Support |
| AMD EPYC 7742 | $6,950 | 54 / 128 | 225W | 2.25 GHz | 3.40 GHz | 256MB | PCIe 4.0 x 128 | Octa DDR4-3200 |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M | $13,011 | 28 / 56 | 205W | 2.50 GHz | 3.80 GHz | 38.5MB | PCIe 3.0 x 48 | Hexa DDR4-2666 |
The dual EPYC 7742 system puts in single-and multi-core score of 4,876 and 193,554 points, respectively. The quad Xeon Platinum 8180M system scores 4,700 and 155,050 points in the single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. The AMD system basically outperforms the Intel system by up to 3.74% in single-core workloads and 24.83% in multi-core workloads.