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AMD EPYC 7702: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started EPYC 7702 sales 7 August 2019 at a recommended price of $6,450. 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 max turbo frequency of 3350 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket TR4 processor with a TDP of 200 Watt. It supports DDR4 Eight-channel memory.
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General info
EPYC 7702 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
Place in performance ranking | 20 | |
Value for money | 22.79 | |
Market segment | Server | |
Series | AMD EPYC | |
Architecture codename | Zen 2 (2019−2020) | |
Release date | 7 August 2019 (3 years old) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $6,450 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
Current price | $1898 (0.3x MSRP) | of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
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 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
Boost clock speed | 3.35 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
L1 cache | 96K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
L3 cache | 256 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
Chip lithography | 7 nm, 14 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
Die size | 192 mm2 | |
Number of transistors | 4,800 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
64 bit support | + | |
Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on EPYC 7702 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 8160M) |
Socket | TR4 | |
Power consumption (TDP) | 200 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7702. 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 7702's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR4 Eight-channel | 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 9654) |
ECC memory support | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 7702. 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 7702 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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Recommended GPUs
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