AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs AMD Opteron 6386 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X and AMD Opteron 6386 SE 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 7 PRO 1700X

  • CPU is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 3.5 GHz
  • Around 48% higher maximum core temperature: 95°C vs 64.40°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 32 nm
  • 16x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 140 Watt
  • Around 65% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2139 vs 1297
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 15579 vs 12761
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 June 2017 vs November 2012
Maximum frequency 3.8 GHz vs 3.5 GHz
Maximum core temperature 95°C vs 64.40°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 32 nm
L1 cache 96 KB (per core) vs 48 KB
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 140 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2139 vs 1297
PassMark - CPU mark 15579 vs 12761

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 6386 SE

  • 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 16 vs 8
  • 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
Number of cores 16 vs 8
L2 cache 16 MB vs 4 MB
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 4 vs 1

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X
CPU 2: AMD Opteron 6386 SE

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2139
1297
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
15579
12761
Name AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X AMD Opteron 6386 SE
PassMark - Single thread mark 2139 1297
PassMark - CPU mark 15579 12761
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 915
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6070
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 23.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 49.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 3.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.987

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X AMD Opteron 6386 SE

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen Abu Dhabi
Family AMD Ryzen PRO Processors AMD Opteron
Launch date 29 June 2017 November 2012
OPN Tray YD17XBBAM88AE OS6386YETGGHK
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Place in performance rating 1624 1607
Series AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop Processors AMD Opteron 6300 Series Processor
Vertical segment Desktop Server
Launch price (MSRP) $2,408
Price now $149.99
Value for money (0-100) 21.11

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 3.4 GHz 2.8 GHz
Die size 192 mm 315 mm
L1 cache 96 KB (per core) 48 KB
L2 cache 4 MB 16 MB
L3 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 32 nm
Maximum core temperature 95°C 64.40°C
Maximum frequency 3.8 GHz 3.5 GHz
Number of cores 8 16
Number of threads 16 16
Transistor count 4800 million 2400 million
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Memory

Max memory channels 2
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz 2000 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4 DDR3

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 4
Sockets supported AM4 G34
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 140 Watt

Peripherals

PCI Express revision 3.0 x16

Security & Reliability

Secure Boot

Advanced Technologies

AMD SenseMI
Extended Frequency Range (XFR)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
TSM Encryption
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)