AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance
Long story short, the AMD EPYC 4005 series topped out by the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4584PX processors deliver excellent generational uplift over the EPYC 4004 series and outright obliterating the Xeon 6300 series with the Xeon 6369P flagship topping out at just 8-cores / 16-threads, no AVX-512, and only DDR5-4800 support. The entry-level Xeon servers are simply uncompetitive at this point and also lag behind in power efficiency and other platform capabilities. The final kill is that there is not even any really compelling pricing advantage to the Xeon 6300 series over EPYC 4005 series in performance-per-dollar. Intel really needs to completely overhaul their entry level server offerings as they really make no sense in current form for 2025 and beyond. Even the EPYC 4004 series is able to outperform the Xeon E-2400 and Xeon 6300 series while now with EPYC 4005 the performance, power efficiency, and value proposition story is even that more compelling.
When taking the geometric mean of more than 200 benchmarks conducted for this launch-day testing, the EPYC 4585PX was 25% faster than the EPYC 4584PX and the EPYC 4565P was 20% faster than the prior generation EPYC 4564P processor. Very nice generational gains while maintaining the same core/thread counts but enjoying 512-bit data path AVX-512, DDR5-5600 memory over DDR5-5200, and other Zen 5 architectural improvements. Meanwhile the EPYC 4585PX was a whopping 88% faster than the Intel Xeon 6369P flagship of the Xeon 6300 series! Pretty incredible the AMD flagship versus Intel flagship difference for entry-level servers in 2025.
The AMD EPYC 4005 series also delivers terrific value. The Xeon 6369P 1KU list price is $606 USD while the EPYC 4565P is around $589 and the EPYC 4585PX at $699 USD. Given the significant performance advantages to the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX, these new AMD EPYC 4005 processors deliver absolutely outstanding performance per dollar.
On average the EPYC 4585PX and EPYC 4565P were consuming 135~140 Watts on average with a peak of 206~209 Watts. This was slightly lower than the prior generation EPYC 4564P processor with a 141 Watt average and 226 Watt recorded peak. The higher power use with the EPYC 4005/4004 processors over the Xeon 6369P is more than worthwhile given the huge performance advantage. Thanks to AMD for supplying the EPYC 4005 review samples for launch day testing on Phoronix.
There really is no question at all for 2025: those interested in entry level servers are best off served by the AMD EPYC 4005 series with Intel lacking any viable competition at large with the Xeon E / Xeon 6300 line-up.
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