AMD Opteron 3260 HE vs AMD Opteron 6328

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 3260 HE and AMD Opteron 6328 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 3260 HE

• 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 115 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 6328

• 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
• 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
• Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
• Around 17% higher maximum core temperature: 71.70°C vs 61.10°C
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• 4x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 60% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1442 vs 900
• 4.2x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9508 vs 2283

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 3260 HE
CPU 2: AMD Opteron 6328

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	900 1442
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2283 9508

Compare specifications (specs)