AMD EPYC 4345P 8-Core CPU Performance
Those interested can find more than 200 benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux 25.04 with these AMD EPYC 4004/4005 and Xeon 6300 series processors via this result page. When taking the geometric mean of all those raw performance benchmarks in full, here's the high level look:
The EPYC 4345P was delivering 1.31x the performance overall of the Xeon 6369P at the same core/thread count. Even the prior generation EPYC 4344P carried a slight advantage in raw performance over the Xeon 6369P. And then at the top end of the AMD EPYC 4005 stack, the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX absolutely crush it without any viable competition from Intel in this space.
The 1.31x better performance overall is substantial enough, but the EPYC 4565P proposition becomes catapulting when looking at the value. The EPYC 4345P can be purchased online right now for $329 USD compared to the Xeon 6369P at $606 (or actually $665 is the cheapest I could find as of writing). You are looking at the EPYC 4345P delivering around 2.4x the performance-per-dollar of the Xeon 6369P.
Or if your budget allows ~$700 or less for a processor, going for the EPYC 4565P is still cheaper than the Xeon 6369P while delivering 1.8x the performance and around 1.93x the performance-per-dollar. The AMD EPYC 4585PX with 3D V-Cache takes the top spot while not costing much more than the Xeon 6369P.
Generationally going from the EPYC 4344P to EPYC 4345P yielded a 25% improvement, which is very nice especially when considering the same power level and being able to re-use the same AM5 server platform.
Completing the trifecta for AMD is the power efficiency of these 8-core processors. When looking at the CPU power consumption over the span of all benchmarks carried out, the EPYC 4345P had a 73 Watt average and a 98 Watt peak, roughly inline with the prior EPYC 4344P. The Xeon 6369P meanwhile had a 87.9 Watt average and a 220 Watt peak. Besides the initial cost savings with the EPYC 4005 series compared to the Xeon 6300 series, with the lower CPU power use is reduced energy and cooling costs. The lower power use also opens the door for EPYC 4005 to more unique edge server designs and even potentially some fanless / low-noise servers and other innovative deployments.
As noted back in the launch day EPYC 4005 reviews, Intel is in a very difficult position with their Xeon 6300 series processors. The Xeon 6300 series continue relying on Raptor Lake and barely changed from the Xeon E-2400 series while costing more than the EPYC 4005 processors and not being nearly as power efficiency. With the Xeon 6300 series is also still on DDR5-4800 ECC support, lacking AVX-512 support, and less PCIe 5.0 lanes than the EPYC 4000 series processors. Even the prior generation EPYC 4004 processors outpace the Xeon 6300 series in most regards. Short of getting some absolutely fabulous purchasing discounts, there is very little genuine reason to consider the Xeon 6300 series for budget servers with such an outstanding combination of performance, value, and efficiency delivered by the EPYC 4005 series.
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