Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 vs AMD PRO A12-9800B

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 and AMD PRO A12-9800B 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, 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 Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1754 vs 1392
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 8447 vs 2691
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 4
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 vs 1392
PassMark - CPU mark 8447 vs 2691

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A12-9800B

  • Around 20% higher clock speed: 3.6 GHz vs 3.00 GHz
  • Around 3% higher maximum core temperature: 90°C vs 87.025°C
  • 5.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 85 Watt
Maximum frequency 3.6 GHz vs 3.00 GHz
Maximum core temperature 90°C vs 87.025°C
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 85 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3
CPU 2: AMD PRO A12-9800B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1754
1392
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
8447
2691
Name Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD PRO A12-9800B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 1392
PassMark - CPU mark 8447 2691
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 411
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 1169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 17.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 208.601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.302
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 22.379
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 78.766

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD PRO A12-9800B

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Bristol Ridge
Launch date Q3'14 24 October 2016
Place in performance rating 1348 1269
Processor Number E5-2628 V3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family AMD PRO A-Series A12 APU for Laptops
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Laptop
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OPN Tray AM980BADY44AB
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.50 GHz 2.7 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 87.025°C 90°C
Maximum frequency 3.00 GHz 3.6 GHz
Number of cores 8 4
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 8 4
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Die size 250 mm
L2 cache 2 MB
Number of GPU cores 8
Transistor count 3100 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 68.3 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2133 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 1866 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) 85 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 12 Watt/15 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40 8
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 Secure technology
DualGraphics
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
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 758 MHz
iGPU core count 8
Processor graphics R7
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
Vulkan