Opteron 156 vs Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

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AMD Opteron 156

Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

We compared two server CPUs: Opteron 156 with 1 cores 3GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2 with 6 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Opteron 156 's Advantages

Higher specification of memory (400 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.2GHz)

Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 90nm)

Lower TDP (80W vs 104W)

Score

Opteron 156

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Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

General Parameters

May 2005

Release Date

Sep 2013

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Venus

Core Architecture

Ivy Bridge-EN

AMD Socket 939

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Opteron (Venus (E4))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Ivy Bridge-EN)

Package

0.114 billions

Transistor Count

1.4 billions

90 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

104 W

Power Consumption

80 W

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Foundry

Intel

115 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

0

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

1

Total Core Count

6

1

Total Thread Count

12

200 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

15.0

Multiplier

22.0

128 KB

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB

L2 Cache

256 K per core

-

L3 Cache

15 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR1-400

Memory Types

DDR3

2

Max Memory Channels

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

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