Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 “Grado” series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs. They delivered an excellent combination of performance, power efficiency, and most of all value for those looking to assemble an AM5-based budget-oriented server in 2025 and beyond. Those processors destroyed the Intel Xeon 6300 series competition’s flagship, the Xeon 6369P that is simply 8 cores / 16 threads in 2025… Being curious about the core-for-core performance between the AMD EPYC 4005 series and Intel Xeon 6300 series, I got my hands on an AMD EPYC 4345P as the Grado 8-core processor to see how it performs against that Xeon E-2400 series replacement as well as how the performance compares to the prior generation 8-core EPYC 4344P.
The AMD EPYC 4345P provides eight Zen 5 cores for 16 total threads while having a 3.8GHz base clock and 5.5GHz maximum boost clock, 32MB of L3 cache, dual channel DDR5-5600 with ECC support, 28 lanes of PCI Express 5.0, and a 65 Watt TDP. All for a list price of $329 USD. And that pricing is accurate and in fact finding it in-stock at NewEgg for as low as $319 USD.
Over the prior generation EPYC 4344P, it’s a transition from Zen 4 to Zen 5 and increasing the memory support from DDR5-5200 to DDR5-5600 while maintaining the same 8 cores / 16 threads configuration, 5.5GHz boost frequency, 32MB L3 cache, and 65 Watt TDP.
The 8-core EPYC 4345P is just the middle of the EPYC 4005 product stack with there also being the 12-core EPYC 4465P and then the 16-core EPYC 4545P / 4565P / 4585PX SKUs. Over on the Intel side though with the new Xeon 6300 series the 8-core Xeon 6369P is their top-end SKU. As mentioned in other articles, the Xeon 6300 series is little changed from the Xeon E-2400 series and still relying on Raptor Lake cores. The Intel Xeon 6369P provides 8 cores / 16 threads, 3.3GHz base frequency, 5.4GHz Turbo Boost Max 3.0 frequency, and 5.7GHz maximum turbo frequency while having a 24MB cache. The Xeon 6369P does have slightly higher boost/turbo frequencies but the EPYC 4345P has a higher base clock. Plus the EPYC 4345P has a 65 Watt TDP compared to the Xeon 6369P at 95 Watts, the larger cache size with the AMD CPU, only 20 lanes of PCI Express 5.0, and remaining at DDR5-4800 speeds compared to DDR5-5600 with Grado.
The real kicker between the EPYC 4345P and Xeon 6369P though is the pricing… Not only are the EPYC 4345P specifications competitive and at the $329 price point but the Xeon 6359P has a list price of $606 USD. The cheapest Xeon 6369P I can currently find is around $625~680+ USD. The Xeon 6369P carries a higher price than the 16-core EPYC 4565P at $569 and nearly as expensive as the 16-core EPYC 4585PX with 3D V-Cache at $699. The AMD EPYC 4000 series processors much like the higher-tier EPYC server processors are much more competitively priced than Intel’s wares.
For seeing how the AMD EPYC 4345P fares core-to-core against the Xeon 6369P and the prior-generation EPYC 4344P, I continued on from the EPYC 4585PX / EPYC 4565P benchmarking last month that also included the EPYC 4564P and EPYC 4584PX prior-generation parts too. Thus a comprehensive look at how the AMD EPYC 4004/4005 series can compete with the Intel Xeon 6300 series at the same core count as well as if going for the highest core processors of the series.
All of the EPYC 4004/4005 testing continued to be done from a Supermicro AS-3015A-I H13SAE-MF server. For delivering a leading-edge look at the Linux performance across all these budget server processors tested, Ubuntu 25.04 with Linux 6.14 was used for testing to provide a very fresh software environment paired with the modern GCC 14.2 compiler and other modern software versions for 2025+ server deployments.
In addition to looking at the raw performance results, the CPU power consumption (performance-per-Watt) as well as value (performance-per-dollar) were also analyzed. Pricing was based on the USD prices available at NewEgg.com as of writing the article. In the case of the Xeon 6369P it was not listed in-stock at NewEgg so I used the $606 pricing baseline even though at other Internet retailers the cheapest price I found was $625~680+.
