AMD Opteron 6328 vs Intel Xeon W3550

Comparative analysis of AMD Opteron 6328 and Intel Xeon W3550 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 14% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 3.33 GHz
• Around 6% higher maximum core temperature: 71.70°C vs 67.9°C
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• 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
• 2x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 130 Watt
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1442 vs 1407
• 3x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9508 vs 3214

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Opteron 6328
CPU 2: Intel Xeon W3550

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1442 1407
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	9508 3214

Compare specifications (specs)