Opteron 156 vs Xeon E5540

VS

AMD Opteron 156

Intel Xeon E5540

We compared two server CPUs: Opteron 156 with 1 cores 3GHz and Xeon E5540 with 4 cores 2.533GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Opteron 156 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.533GHz)

Xeon E5540 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Higher specification of memory (1066 vs 400)

More modern manufacturing process (45nm vs 90nm)

Lower TDP (80W vs 104W)

Score

Opteron 156

VS

Xeon E5540

General Parameters

May 2005

Release Date

Mar 2009

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Venus

Core Architecture

Gainestown

AMD Socket 939

Socket

Intel Socket 1366

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Opteron (Venus (E4))

Generation

Xeon(Gainestown)

Package

0.114 billions

Transistor Count

0.731 billions

90 nm

Manufacturing Process

45 nm

104 W

Power Consumption

80 W

-

Foundry

Intel

115 mm²

Die Size

263 mm²

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.533 GHz

0

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

2.8 GHz

1

Total Core Count

4

1

Total Thread Count

8

200 MHz

Bus Frequency

133 MHz

15.0

Multiplier

19.0

128 KB

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

1 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB per core

-

L3 Cache

8 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR1-400

Memory Types

DDR3-1066

2

Max Memory Channels

3

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

-

PCIe Version

2

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