AMD Opteron 6238 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 6238 and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 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 6238

• 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 4
• 4 more threads: 12 vs 8
• Around 50% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 6x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

• Around 16% higher clock speed: 3.7 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
• Around 35% higher maximum core temperature: 95°C vs 70.40°C
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 32 nm
• Around 77% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 115 Watt
• Around 99% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2140 vs 1076
• Around 11% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9126 vs 8206

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 6238
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1076 2140
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	8206 9126

Compare specifications (specs)