Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 vs AMD Pro A6-8500B

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 and AMD Pro A6-8500B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 6 vs 2
  • 8 more threads: 12 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 6415 vs 1601
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 6 vs 2
Number of threads 12 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 6415 vs 1601

Reasons to consider the AMD Pro A6-8500B

  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 52 Watt
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1340 vs 1210
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 52 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1340 vs 1210

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3
CPU 2: AMD Pro A6-8500B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1210
1340
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
6415
1601
Name Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 AMD Pro A6-8500B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1210 1340
PassMark - CPU mark 6415 1601

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2608L v3 AMD Pro A6-8500B

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Carrizo
Launch date Q3'14 3 June 2015
Place in performance rating 1905 1898
Processor Number E5-2608LV3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family AMD PRO A-Series A6 APU for Laptops
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Laptop
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, Windows 7 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.00 GHz 1.6 GHz
Bus Speed 6.4 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 88.84°C
Number of cores 6 2
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 12 4
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Compute Cores 6
L2 cache 1 MB
Maximum frequency 3 GHz
Number of GPU cores 4
Transistor count 3100 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 59 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 1600/1866 DDR3 / DDR3L-1600
Supported memory frequency 1600 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
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 52 Watt 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
AMD App Acceleration
AMD Elite Experiences
AMD HD3D technology
AMD Mantle API
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
VirusProtect

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™)
IOMMU 2.0

Graphics

Enduro
Graphics max frequency 800 MHz
iGPU core count 256
Number of pipelines 256
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
Vulkan