AMD EPYC 7662: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started EPYC 7662 sales 19 February 2020. This is a high-end 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 maximum frequency of 3300 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is Socket SP3 processor with a TDP of 225 Watt. It supports DDR4-3200 memory.
It provides good benchmark performance at 58.17% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
EPYC 7662 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 22 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | AMD EPYC | |
| Architecture codename | Zen 2 (2019−2020) | |
| Release date | 19 February 2020 (3 years old) |
Technical specs
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 | 64 (Tetrahexaconta-Core) | |
| Threads | 128 | |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.3 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 4 MB | of 7.3 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 256 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm, 14 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on EPYC 7662 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.
| Socket | Socket SP3 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 225 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7662. 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 7662's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-3200 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum memory size | 4 TiB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 8 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 204.763 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 7662. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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Relative perfomance
Overall EPYC 7662 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for EPYC 7662, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for EPYC 7662 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 8 configurations based on EPYC 7662 in our database.
