AMD Opteron 4238 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 4238 and Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 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

  • 3x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • Around 37% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 130 Watt
L2 cache 6 MB vs 256 KB (per core)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 130 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 6
  • 10 more threads: 16 vs 6
  • Around 8% higher clock speed: 4.00 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 74°C vs 70.50°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 32 nm
  • Around 78% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2.5x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 54% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2024 vs 1313
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 21310 vs 7236
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 6
Number of threads 16 vs 6
Maximum frequency 4.00 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
Maximum core temperature 74°C vs 70.50°C
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 32 nm
L1 cache 64 KB (per core) vs 288 KB
L3 cache 20480 KB (shared) vs 8 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2024 vs 1313
PassMark - CPU mark 21310 vs 7236

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 4238
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1313
2024
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
7236
21310
Name AMD Opteron 4238 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2
PassMark - Single thread mark 1313 2024
PassMark - CPU mark 7236 21310
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 758
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 122.873
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.042
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.296
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 11.999

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Opteron 4238 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Essentials

Family AMD Opteron
OPN Tray OS4238WLU6KGU
Place in performance rating 1744 1679
Series AMD Opteron 4200 Series Processor Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v2 Family
Vertical segment Server Server
Architecture codename Ivy Bridge EP
Launch date September 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $2,300
Price now $763.56
Processor Number E5-2667V2
Status Launched
Value for money (0-100) 6.24

Performance

Base frequency 3.3 GHz 3.30 GHz
L1 cache 288 KB 64 KB (per core)
L2 cache 6 MB 256 KB (per core)
L3 cache 8 MB 20480 KB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 22 nm
Maximum core temperature 70.50°C 74°C
Maximum frequency 3.7 GHz 4.00 GHz
Number of cores 6 8
Number of threads 6 16
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Die size 160 mm
Number of QPI Links 2
Transistor count 1400 million
VID voltage range 0.65–1.30V

Memory

Supported memory frequency 2200 MHz
Supported memory types DDR3 DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600/1866
ECC memory support
Max memory channels 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 59.7 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB

Compatibility

Sockets supported C32 FCLGA2011
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 130 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2
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 Only

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® AVX
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
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)