AMD Opteron 6328 vs Intel Xeon E5640

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 6328 and Intel Xeon E5640 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. 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), Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 6328

• 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
• Around 30% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 2.93 GHz
• Around 50% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 8x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 33% more L3 cache; more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 15% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1442 vs 1252
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9508 vs 7455

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5640

• Around 8% higher maximum core temperature: 77.6°C vs 71.70°C
• Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 6328
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5640

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1442 1252
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	9508 7455

Compare specifications (specs)