Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 vs AMD PRO A6-8530B

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 and AMD PRO A6-8530B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, 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), 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 E5-2628 v3

  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1754 vs 1149
  • 7.5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 8447 vs 1127
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 vs 1149
PassMark - CPU mark 8447 vs 1127

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A6-8530B

  • Around 7% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 3.00 GHz
Maximum frequency 3.2 GHz vs 3.00 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3
CPU 2: AMD PRO A6-8530B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1754
1149
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
8447
1127
Name Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD PRO A6-8530B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1754 1149
PassMark - CPU mark 8447 1127
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1941
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 2807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 226.263
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 16.619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 43.737
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 851
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 851
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4708

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2628 v3 AMD PRO A6-8530B

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell
Launch date Q3'14 Q3 2016
Place in performance rating 1348 1303
Processor Number E5-2628 V3
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
OPN Tray AM853BADY23AB
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 2.50 GHz 2.3 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 87.025°C
Maximum frequency 3.00 GHz 3.2 GHz
Number of cores 8 2
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 8
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Compute Cores 6
L2 cache 1 MB
Number of GPU cores 4
Unlocked

Memory

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

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40
PCI Express revision 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
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

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 800 MHz
Processor graphics R5
Switchable graphics

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
Vulkan