Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Processor Benchmarks and Specs

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Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Processor Benchmarks and Specs

Specifications of the Dual AMD EPYC 7742 processor dedicated to the server sector, it has 64 cores, 128 threads, a maximum frequency of 3.4GHz. The table below makes it possible to observe well the lithography, the number of transistors (if present), the offered cache memory, the maximum capacity of RAM memory that we can get, the type of compatible memory, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in the Passmark platform, Cinebench R23 and Geekbench 5.

Specifications:

Processor		Dual AMD EPYC 7742
Market (main)		Server
ISA		x86-64 (64 bit)
Microarchitecture		Zen 2
Core name		Rome
Family		EPYC 7002
Part number(s), S-Spec		100-000000053, 100-100000053WOF
Release date		Q3 2019
Lithography		7 nm
Transistors		79,080,000,000
Cores		128
Threads		256
Base frequency		2.3 GHz
Turbo frequency		3.4 GHz
Cache memory		512 MB
Max memory capacity		8 TB
Memory types		DDR4-3200
Max # of memory channels		16
Max memory bandwidth		381.4 GB/s
Max PCIe lanes		256
TDP		450 W
Suggested PSU		1000W ATX Power Supply
GPU integrated graphics		None
Socket		SP3, LGA-4094
Compatible motherboard		Socket SP3 Motherboard
CPU-Z single thread		408
CPU-Z multi thread		26,692
Cinebench R15 single thread		145
Cinebench R15 multi-thread		11,332
Cinebench R20 single thread		395
Cinebench R20 multi-thread		29,937
Cinebench R23 single thread		1,305
Cinebench R23 multi-thread		98,929
PassMark single thread		2,310
PassMark CPU Mark		55,580
(Linux) Geekbench 4 single core		4,731
(Linux) Geekbench 4 multi-core		186,120
(Linux) Geekbench 5 single core		935
(Linux) Geekbench 5 multi-core		30,139
(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance		2,513 GFLOPS
(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio		414 pts / W
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Performance with the benchmarks:

Performance comparison between this processor and those of equivalent power, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark softwares such as Geekbench.

Suggested PSU: We assume that we have An ATX computer case, a high end graphics card, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, a 1TB HDD hard drive, a Blu-Ray drive. We will have to rely on a more powerful power supply if we want to have several graphics cards, several monitors, more memory, etc.

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Performance comparison on the CPU-Z benchmark software for IT processors:

	CPU-Z - Multi-thread & single thread score
Dual AMD EPYC 7H12	392 41,506
Dual AMD EPYC 7702	397 39,875
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6254	451 36,514
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C	447 34,310
Dual AMD EPYC 7571	373 27,341
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	408 26,692
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6338	341 25,742
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 5218	438 25,180
AMD EPYC 7H12	395 24,822
AMD EPYC 7742	407 23,138

CPU-Z is a system information software that provides the name of the processor, its model number, the codename, the cache levels, the package, the process. It can also gives data about the mainboard, the memory. It makes real time measurement, with finally a benchmark for the single thread, as well as for the multi thread.

Performance comparison on the Cinebench R15 benchmark platform for IT devices:

	Cinebench R15 - Multi-thread & single thread score
Dual AMD EPYC 7T83	174 15,206
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	145 11,332
Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8180	84 10,551
Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8160	158 10,027
AMD EPYC 7H12	146 9,751
AMD EPYC 7T83	176 9,740

Cinebench R15 evaluates the performance of CPU calculations by restoring a photorealistic 3D scene. The scene has 2,000 objects, 300,000 polygons, uses sharp and fuzzy reflections, bright areas, shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and so on. The faster the rendering of the scene is created, the more powerful the PC is, with a high number of points.

Performance comparison on the Cinebench R20 benchmark platform for computers:

	Cinebench R20 - Multi-thread & single thread score
Dual AMD EPYC 7763	430 43,253
Dual AMD EPYC 7T83	438 37,533
Dual AMD EPYC 7773X	436 30,337
Dual AMD EPYC 7H12	334 30,211
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	395 29,937
Dual AMD EPYC 7R32	561 26,648
AMD EPYC 7T83	435 24,042
AMD EPYC 7H12	334 22,352
Dual AMD EPYC 7F72	768 20,883

Cinebench R20 is a multi-platform test software which allows to evaluate the hardware capacities of a device such as a computer, a tablet, a server. This version of Cinebench takes into account recent developments in processors with multiple cores and the latest improvements in rendering techniques. The evaluation is ultimately even more relevant.

Performance comparison on the Cinebench R23 benchmark platform for computer processors:

	Cinebench R23 - Multi-thread & single thread score
Dual AMD EPYC 7763	1,129 113,631
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	1,305 98,929
Dual AMD EPYC 7T83	1,129 96,832
Dual AMD EPYC 7H12	979 90,215
Dual AMD EPYC 7713	1,218 87,867
AMD EPYC 9654	1,453 75,082

Cinebench R23 is cross-platform testing software that allows you to assess the hardware capabilities of a device such as a computer, tablet, server. This version of Cinebench takes into account recent developments in processors with multiple cores and the latest improvements in rendering techniques. The evaluation is ultimately even more relevant. The test scene contains no less than 2,000 objects and more than 300,000 polygons in total.

Performance comparison on the Passmark benchmark platform for computing machines:

	PassMark - CPU Mark
AMD EPYC 7443P	2,940 57,542
AMD EPYC 7542	2,195 56,818
AMD EPYC 7543	2,552 56,550
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6238R	2,066 56,192
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6346	2,433 55,894
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	2,310 55,580
AMD EPYC 7532	2,128 55,367
Dual AMD EPYC 7401	1,844 55,293
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6254	2,344 54,878
Intel Xeon Platinum 8358	2,371 54,425

PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.

On Windows: performance comparison in Geekbench 4 with Windows operating system.

	Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & single core score - Windows
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6230	4,222 44,028
Intel Xeon Gold 6230	4,746 42,576
Intel Xeon W-2175	5,175 42,359
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6130	3,815 41,882
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6226R	4,239 41,840
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	4,337 41,576
Dual AMD EPYC 7H12	4,052 40,989
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8268	4,185 40,576
Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4	3,915 39,740
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6246R	4,552 38,746

On Linux: performance comparison in Geekbench 4 with Linux operating system.

	Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & single core score - Linux
Dual AMD EPYC 7662	4,185 189,628
Dual AMD EPYC 7T83	5,690 189,141
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	4,731 186,120
Dual AMD EPYC 7763	5,337 177,828
Dual AMD EPYC 7H12	4,626 174,995
Dual AMD EPYC 7702	4,775 159,573
Dual AMD EPYC 7513	6,329 156,784

Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.

On Windows: performance comparison in Geekbench 5 with Windows operating system.

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Windows
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8171M	963 16,743
AMD EPYC 7J13	1,072 16,664
Dual AMD EPYC 7R32	952 16,634
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6140	798 16,604
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 5220	780 16,598
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	993 16,440
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6338	701 16,373
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8268	892 16,283
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4	900 16,152
AMD EPYC 7542	965 16,094

On Linux: performance comparison in Geekbench 5 with Linux operating system.

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Linux
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6238R	1,142 30,869
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 5218	919 30,771
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6154	975 30,518
Dual AMD EPYC 7F52	1,214 30,225
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6148	1,036 30,224
Dual AMD EPYC 7742	935 30,139
AMD EPYC 7513	1,339 30,037
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8171M	1,088 29,713
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8260	1,001 29,500
Dual AMD EPYC 7402	993 28,887

Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.

List of comparisons:

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List of benchmarks:

CPU-Z Cinebench R15 Cinebench R20 Cinebench R23 Geekbench 4 on Linux Geekbench 4 on Windows Geekbench 5 on Linux Geekbench 5 on Windows PassMark GFLOPS performance

Equivalence:

Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Intel equivalent

Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Processor Benchmarks and Specs

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Performance with the benchmarks:

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