Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 vs AMD A6-9225

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 and AMD A6-9225 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3

AMD A6-9225

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3

10 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1317 vs 1159
6.8x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9061 vs 1331

Specifications (specs)
Number of cores	12 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark	1317 vs 1159
PassMark - CPU mark	9061 vs 1331

Reasons to consider the AMD A6-9225

Around 18% higher clock speed: 2.6 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
Around 3% higher maximum core temperature: 90°C vs 87°C
7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 105 Watt

Maximum frequency	2.6 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
Maximum core temperature	90°C vs 87°C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 105 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3
CPU 2: AMD A6-9225

PassMark - Single thread mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

1317

1159

PassMark - CPU mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

9061

1331

Name	Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3	AMD A6-9225
PassMark - Single thread mark	1317	1159
PassMark - CPU mark	9061	1331
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		754
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		754
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1522
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4199
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		1.391

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3	AMD A6-9225
Essentials
Architecture codename	Haswell
Launch date	Q2'15	Q2 2018
Place in performance rating	1687	1659
Processor Number	E5-4648V3
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		AM9225AYN23AC
OS Support		Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Performance
64 bit support
Base frequency	1.70 GHz	3.1 GHz
Bus Speed	8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	28 nm
Maximum core temperature	87°C	90°C
Maximum frequency	2.20 GHz	2.6 GHz
Number of cores	12	2
Number of QPI Links	2
Number of threads	24
Compute Cores		5
L2 cache		1 MB
Number of GPU cores		3
Unlocked
Memory
Max memory channels	4	1
Maximum memory bandwidth	68 GB/s
Maximum memory size	768 GB
Supported memory types	DDR4
Supported memory frequency		2133 MHz
Compatibility
Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration	4
Package Size	52.5mm x 51mm
Sockets supported	FCLGA2011-3
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 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	4S
Security & Reliability
Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
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® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Instruction Replay Technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Physical Address Extensions (PAE)	46-bit
Thermal Monitoring
Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling (AVFS)
AMD App Acceleration
AMD HD3D technology
AMD Mantle API
DualGraphics
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Virtualization
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
Graphics
Enduro
Graphics max frequency		686 MHz
Processor graphics		AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Graphics interfaces
DisplayPort
HDMI
Graphics API support
DirectX		12
Vulkan