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).

 

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 13% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1317 vs 1161
  • 6.8x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9061 vs 1334
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 12 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 vs 1161
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 vs 1334

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
1161
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
9061
1334
Name Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 AMD A6-9225
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 1161
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 1334
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 1688 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