AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 vs AMD Opteron 6168

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and AMD Opteron 6168 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 Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

• CPU is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 95% higher clock speed: 3.7 GHz vs 1.9 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 45 nm
• Around 33% more L3 cache; more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 77% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 115 Watt
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2129 vs 845

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 6168

• 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 4
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 36x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 73% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 15745 vs 9099

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500
CPU 2: AMD Opteron 6168

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2129 845
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	9099 15745

Compare specifications (specs)