Opteron 6278 vs Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3

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AMD Opteron 6278

Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3

We compared two server CPUs: Opteron 6278 with 16 cores 2.4GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3 with 6 cores 2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Opteron 6278 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2GHz)

Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)

Larger L3 cache size (15MB vs 8MB)

More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)

Lower TDP (52W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Opteron 6278

309

Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3 +129%

709

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Opteron 6278

2575

Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3 +36%

3511

Opteron 6278

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Intel Xeon E5 2608L v3

General Parameters

May 2012

Release Date

Sep 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Interlagos

Core Architecture

Haswell-EP

AMD Socket G34

Socket

Intel Socket 2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Opteron (Interlagos)

Generation

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Package

2.4 billions

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

32 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

115 W

Power Consumption

52 W

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Foundry

Intel

316 mm²

Die Size

356 mm²

CPU Performance

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

3.3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

16

Total Core Count

6

16

Total Thread Count

6

200 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

12.0

Multiplier

20.0

768 K

L1 Cache

64 K per core

16 MB

L2 Cache

256 K per core

8 MB per die

L3 Cache

15 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

4

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR3

Memory Types

DDR4-1866

Max Memory Channels

4

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

2

PCIe Version

3

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PCIe Lanes

40

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