AMD Athlon PRO 300U vs Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300U and Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Around 10% higher clock speed: 3.3 GHz vs 3.00 GHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 85 Watt
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1931 vs 1754

Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency	3.3 GHz vs 3.00 GHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 85 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark	1931 vs 1754

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
4 more threads: 8 vs 4
2.1x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 8447 vs 4080

Specifications (specs)
Number of cores	8 vs 2
Number of threads	8 vs 4
Max number of CPUs in a configuration	2 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark	8447 vs 4080

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300U
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

PassMark - Single thread mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

1931

1754

PassMark - CPU mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

4080

8447

Name	AMD Athlon PRO 300U	Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3
PassMark - Single thread mark	1931	1754
PassMark - CPU mark	4080	8447

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Athlon PRO 300U	Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3
Essentials
Architecture codename	Raven Ridge 2	Haswell
Launch date	8 Apr 2019	Q3'14
Place in performance rating	1321	1343
Processor Number		E5-2628 V3
Series		Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family
Status		Launched
Vertical segment		Embedded
Performance
Base frequency	2.4 GHz	2.50 GHz
L1 cache	128K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)
L3 cache	4MB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	22 nm
Maximum frequency	3.3 GHz	3.00 GHz
Number of cores	2	8
Number of threads	4	8
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed		8 GT/s QPI
Maximum core temperature		87.025°C
Number of QPI Links		2
VID voltage range		0.65V–1.30V
Memory
ECC memory support
Supported memory types	DDR4, Dual-channel	DDR4-2133
Max memory channels		4
Maximum memory bandwidth		68.3 GB/s
Maximum memory size		768 GB
Compatibility
Max number of CPUs in a configuration	1	2
Sockets supported	FP5	FCLGA2011-3
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	85 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Package Size		52.5mm x 45mm
Peripherals
Max number of PCIe lanes		40
PCI Express revision		3.0
PCIe configurations		x4, x8, x16
Scalability		2S
Security & Reliability
Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Advanced Technologies
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions		Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE)		46-bit
Thermal Monitoring
Virtualization
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)