Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 vs AMD A6-9220

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 and AMD A6-9220 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces. 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 6 vs 2
  • 10 more threads: 12 vs 2
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1210 vs 1136
  • 5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 6415 vs 1283
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 6 vs 2
Number of threads 12 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1210 vs 1136
PassMark - CPU mark 6415 vs 1283

Reasons to consider the AMD A6-9220

  • Around 1% higher maximum core temperature: 90°C vs 88.84°C
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 52 Watt
Maximum core temperature 90°C vs 88.84°C
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 52 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3
CPU 2: AMD A6-9220

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1210
1136
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
6415
1283
Name Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 AMD A6-9220
PassMark - Single thread mark 1210 1136
PassMark - CPU mark 6415 1283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.922
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4.825
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 29.364
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 743
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4038
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 743
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4038

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 AMD A6-9220

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Stoney Ridge
Launch date Q3'14 1 June 2016
Place in performance rating 1873 1869
Processor Number E5-2608LV3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family AMD A6-Series APU for Laptops
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Laptop
Family AMD A-Series Processors
OPN Tray AM9220AYN23AC
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.00 GHz 2.5 GHz
Bus Speed 6.4 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 88.84°C 90°C
Number of cores 6 2
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 12 2
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Compute Cores 5
Die size 124.5 mm
L1 cache 160 KB
L2 cache 1 MB
Maximum frequency 2.9 GHz
Number of GPU cores 3
Transistor count 1200 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 1
Maximum memory bandwidth 59 GB/s 17.1 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 1600/1866 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 2133 MHz

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 FP4 BGA
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 52 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 10-15 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16
Scalability 2S

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)

Graphics

Graphics max frequency 655 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI