Intel Xeon E5 2620 vs Opteron 156

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

AMD Opteron 156

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2620 with 6 cores 2GHz and Opteron 156 with 1 cores 3GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 2620 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More modern manufacturing process (32nm vs 90nm)

Lower TDP (95W vs 104W)

Opteron 156 's Advantages

Higher specification of memory (400 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2GHz)

Score

Intel Xeon E5 2620

VS

Opteron 156

General Parameters

Mar 2012

Release Date

May 2005

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Sandy Bridge-EP

Core Architecture

Venus

Intel Socket 2011

Socket

AMD Socket 939

N/A

Integrated Graphics

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Generation

Opteron (Venus (E4))

Package

2.27 billions

Transistor Count

0.114 billions

32 nm

Manufacturing Process

90 nm

95 W

Power Consumption

104 W

Intel

Foundry

-

435 mm²

Die Size

115 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3 GHz

2.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

6

Total Core Count

1

12

Total Thread Count

1

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

200 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

15.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

128 KB

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB

15 MB shared

L3 Cache

-

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR3

Memory Types

DDR1-400

4

Max Memory Channels

2

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Miscellaneous

3

PCIe Version

-

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