EPYC 72F3: specs and benchmarks

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EPYC 72F3
2021
8 cores / 16 threads, 180 Watt
17.16

EPYC 72F3 provides good benchmark performance at 17.16% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started EPYC 72F3 sales 15 March 2021 at a recommended price of $2,468. This is a Milan architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 7 nm+ manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4100 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket SP3 processor with a TDP of 180 Watt. It supports DDR4-3200 memory.

Primary details

EPYC 72F3 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking369
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.39
Market segmentServer
SeriesAMD EPYC
Power efficiency9.02of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameMilan (2021−2023)
Release date15 March 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,468of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed3.7 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.1 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier37of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache256 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography7 nm+of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size8x 81 mm2
Number of transistors33,200 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on EPYC 72F3 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration2of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketSP3
Power consumption (TDP)180 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 72F3. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by EPYC 72F3's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-3200
Maximum memory size4 TiBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9654)
Maximum memory bandwidth204.795 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into EPYC 72F3.

Integrated graphics cardN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes128

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 72F3. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

EPYC 72F3 17.16

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

EPYC 72F3 27252

Gaming performance

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EPYC 72F3's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


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Recommended GPUs

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These are the fastest graphics cards for EPYC 72F3 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1 configurations using EPYC 72F3 in our database.

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