AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs Intel Xeon Silver 4208

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and Intel Xeon Silver 4208 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Security & Reliability. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon PRO 300GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 85 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1911 vs 1764
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 vs 2 April 2019
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 85 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1911 vs 1764

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon Silver 4208

  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • 12 more threads: 16 vs 4
  • 2.7x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 8x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 2.8x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 1 TB vs 64 GB
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 18744 vs 4308
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 2
Number of threads 16 vs 4
L1 cache 512 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB vs 1 MB
L3 cache 11 MB vs 4 MB
Maximum memory size 1 TB vs 64 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 18744 vs 4308

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300GE
CPU 2: Intel Xeon Silver 4208

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1911
1764
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4308
18744
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Xeon Silver 4208
PassMark - Single thread mark 1911 1764
PassMark - CPU mark 4308 18744

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Xeon Silver 4208

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Cascade Lake
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 2 April 2019
OPN Tray YD300BC6M2OFH
Place in performance rating 1329 1161
Processor Number PRO 300GE 4208
Vertical segment Desktop Server
Family Xeon Silver
Launch price (MSRP) $417
Series 4200

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz 2.10 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 11 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C
Number of cores 2 8
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 16
Unlocked
64 bit support
Maximum case temperature (TCase) 78 °C
Maximum frequency 3.20 GHz
Number of Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) Links 2

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 6
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s 107.3 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB 1 TB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz 2400 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666 DDR4-2400

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 FCLGA3647
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 85 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20 48
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x16+1x4, 2x8+1x4
Scalability 2S

Advanced Technologies

AMD GuardMI technology
AMD SenseMI
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Intel 64
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® Volume Management Device (VMD)
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology
Turbo Boost Max 3.0

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Mode-based Execute Control (MBE)