Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Opteron 3350 HE

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 and AMD Opteron 3350 HE 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 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

  • 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 4
  • 20 more threads: 24 vs 4
  • Around 22% higher maximum core temperature: 84.5°C vs 69.10°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 32 nm
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1772 vs 1263
  • 6x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 24208 vs 4009
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 12 vs 4
Number of threads 24 vs 4
Maximum core temperature 84.5°C vs 69.10°C
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 32 nm
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1772 vs 1263
PassMark - CPU mark 24208 vs 4009

Reasons to consider the AMD Opteron 3350 HE

  • Around 15% higher clock speed: 3.8 GHz vs 3.30 GHz
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 120 Watt
Maximum frequency 3.8 GHz vs 3.30 GHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
CPU 2: AMD Opteron 3350 HE

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1772
1263
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
24208
4009
Name Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 AMD Opteron 3350 HE
PassMark - Single thread mark 1772 1263
PassMark - CPU mark 24208 4009
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 713
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 7890
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.094
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 78.362
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.027

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 AMD Opteron 3350 HE

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Delhi
Launch date Q3'14 n/d
Place in performance rating 1639 1812
Processor Number E5-2680V3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family AMD Opteron 3300 Series Processor
Status Launched
Vertical segment Server Server
Family AMD Opteron
OPN Tray OS3350HOW4KHK

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.50 GHz 2.8 GHz
Bus Speed 9.6 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 32 nm
Maximum core temperature 84.5°C 69.10°C
Maximum frequency 3.30 GHz 3.8 GHz
Number of cores 12 4
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 24 4
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Die size 315 mm
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 4 MB
L3 cache 8 MB
Transistor count 1200 million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 68 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 1600/1866/2133 DDR3
Supported memory frequency 2000 MHz

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 1
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 AM3+
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 45 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
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
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™)