AMD Opteron 4238 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 4238 and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X 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, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 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 4238

• Around 50% more L2 cache; more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 6
• 10 more threads: 16 vs 6
• Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
• Around 35% higher maximum core temperature: 95°C vs 70.50°C
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 32 nm
• 2.7x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 62% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2131 vs 1313
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 15612 vs 7236

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 4238
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1313 2131
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	7236 15612

Compare specifications (specs)