EPYC 7H12: specs and benchmarks

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EPYC 7H12
2019
64 cores / 128 threads, 280 Watt
43.84

EPYC 7H12 provides outstanding benchmark performance at 43.84% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started EPYC 7H12 sales 18 September 2019. This is a Zen 2 architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 64 cores and 128 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3300 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket TR4 processor with a TDP of 280 Watt. It supports DDR4 Eight-channel memory.

Primary details

EPYC 7H12 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking48
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentServer
SeriesAMD EPYC
Power efficiency14.82of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameZen 2 (2017−2020)
Release date18 September 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores64 (Tetrahexaconta-Core)
Threads128
Base clock speed2.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.3 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier26of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache96K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache256 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography7 nm, 14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size192 mm2
Number of transistors4,800 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on EPYC 7H12 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 configuration2 (Multiprocessor)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketTR4
Power consumption (TDP)280 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7H12. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

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 7H12's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Eight-channel
Maximum memory size4 TiBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels8of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth204.763 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 7H12. 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 7H12 43.84

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 7H12 69633

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

EPYC 7H12's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for EPYC 7H12, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for EPYC 7H12 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4453 configurations using EPYC 7H12 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
25% (1114/4453)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.8% (37/4453)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.09% (4/4453)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.09% (4/4453)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
11.7% (522/4453)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.1% (6/4453)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.6% (25/4453)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.3% (14/4453)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.02% (1/4453)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.04% (2/4453)

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