EPYC 7262: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
EPYC 7262 provides good benchmark performance at 13.08% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started EPYC 7262 sales 7 August 2019 at a recommended price of $575. This is a Zen 2 architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3400 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket SP3 processor with a TDP of 155 Watt. It supports DDR4 Eight-channel memory.
Primary details
EPYC 7262 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 580 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 10.02 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | AMD EPYC | |
| Power efficiency | 7.99 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Zen 2 (2017−2020) | |
| Release date | 7 August 2019 (5 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $575 | of 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 cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 16 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.4 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Multiplier | 32 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 96 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 128 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm, 14 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 192 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 3,800 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on EPYC 7262 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 configuration | 2 (Multiprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | SP3 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 155 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7262. 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 7262's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 Eight-channel | |
| Maximum memory size | 4 TiB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 8 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 204.763 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into EPYC 7262.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 4.0 | of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P) |
| PCI Express lanes | 128 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 7262. 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.
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.
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