AMD Opteron 6220 vs Intel Xeon E5-2450

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 6220 and Intel Xeon E5-2450 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 Opteron 6220

Intel Xeon E5-2450

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 6220

Around 24% higher clock speed: 3.6 GHz vs 2.90 GHz
4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later

Maximum frequency	3.6 GHz vs 2.90 GHz
L2 cache	8 MB vs 256 KB (per core)

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2450

8 more threads: 16 vs 8
Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
Around 25% more L3 cache; more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 115 Watt
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1260 vs 1235
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 10978 vs 7951

Specifications (specs)
Number of threads	16 vs 8
L1 cache	64 KB (per core) vs 384 KB
L3 cache	20480 KB (shared) vs 16 MB
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark	1260 vs 1235
PassMark - CPU mark	10978 vs 7951

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 6220
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5-2450

PassMark - Single thread mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

1235

1260

PassMark - CPU mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

7951

10978

Name	AMD Opteron 6220	Intel Xeon E5-2450
PassMark - Single thread mark	1235	1260
PassMark - CPU mark	7951	10978

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Opteron 6220	Intel Xeon E5-2450
Essentials
Family	AMD Opteron
OPN Tray	OS6220WKT8GGU
Place in performance rating	1829	1731
Series	AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processor	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
Vertical segment	Server	Server
Architecture codename		Sandy Bridge EN
Launch date		May 2012
Launch price (MSRP)		$500
Price now		$722.22
Processor Number		E5-2450
Status		Discontinued
Value for money (0-100)		4.15
Performance
Base frequency	3 GHz	2.10 GHz
L1 cache	384 KB	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	8 MB	256 KB (per core)
L3 cache	16 MB	20480 KB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	32 nm
Maximum core temperature	71.70°C
Maximum frequency	3.6 GHz	2.90 GHz
Number of cores	8	8
Number of threads	8	16
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed		8 GT/s QPI
Die size		294 mm
Number of QPI Links		1
Transistor count		1270 million
VID voltage range		0.60V-1.35V
Memory
Supported memory frequency	2000 MHz
Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600
ECC memory support
Max memory channels		3
Maximum memory bandwidth		38.4 GB/s
Maximum memory size		384 GB
Compatibility
Sockets supported	G34	FCLGA1356
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	95 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration		2
Package Size		45mm x 42.5mm
Peripherals
Max number of PCIe lanes		24
PCI Express revision		3.0
Scalability		2S Only
Security & Reliability
Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection 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® Turbo Boost technology
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)