Nothing splits a group of techies more than Intel vs. AMD. Some swear by Intel, and others AMD whilst both perform well, they do have their differences.

Price

The price of Intel’s Xeon processors will vary by design. However, as these are Intel’s fastest 28-core CPU’s, the price should be expected to be quite high. AMD’s new EPYC processors undercut the Xeon price point by up to a staggering 73.2%! The EPYC averages at roughly half of the cost of Xeon processors. This leaves us needing to find out if the price negates functionality and performance.

Cores

Intel and AMD both have multiple cores within a single processor. A single core is important because there are plenty of applications that don’t equally divide up tasks. Most gamers want fewer cores that offer better singular performance, and most software engineers would prefer processors with many cores.

Performance

A new cache design features AMD’s new EPYC 7003 doubles the amount of memory that a single core can access, giving you 6 times more cache memory per socket. This, therefore, improves the performance of a single core and makes it more equipped than the Xeon to deal with large datasets. Compared with Intel’s latest Xeon, you should expect to see roughly a 10-15% increase in performance. The benefits of upgrading your servers would be at least a 30% reduction in server costs, space used, power consumed, and admin costs.

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