Xeon Gold 6430 vs EPYC 9124

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Primary details

Comparing EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking172not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation22.54no data
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesAMD EPYCno data
Power efficiency13.15no data
Architecture codenameGenoa (2022−2023)Sapphire Rapids (2023−2024)
Release date10 November 2022 (2 years ago)10 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,083$2,138

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores16 (Hexadeca-Core)32 (Dotriaconta-Core)
Threads3264
Base clock speed3 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz3.4 GHz
Multiplier30no data
L1 cache64K (per core)80K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)2 MB (per core)
L3 cache64 MB (shared)60 MB
Chip lithography5 nm, 6 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size4x 72 mm24x 477 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
Number of transistors26,280 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibilityno data+

Compatibility

Information on EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430 compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration22
SocketSP5FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt270 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Precision Boost 2+no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5-4800DDR5-4400
Maximum memory size6 TiB4 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
Maximum memory bandwidth460.8 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430.

PCIe version5.05.0
PCI Express lanes12880

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

EPYC 9124 1851
+34.9%
Xeon Gold 6430 1372

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

EPYC 9124 13075
+22%
Xeon Gold 6430 10718

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2022 10 January 2023
Physical cores 16 32
Threads 32 64
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 270 Watt

EPYC 9124 has 35% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 6430, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

We couldn't decide between EPYC 9124 and Xeon Gold 6430. We've got no test results to judge.


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