Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 vs AMD Pro A12-8800B

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 and AMD Pro A12-8800B 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), 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 E5-4648 v3

  • 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 4
  • 20 more threads: 24 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9061 vs 2580
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 12 vs 4
Number of threads 24 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 vs 1315
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 vs 2580

Reasons to consider the AMD Pro A12-8800B

  • Around 55% higher clock speed: 3.4 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
  • 7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 105 Watt
Maximum frequency 3.4 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 105 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3
CPU 2: AMD Pro A12-8800B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1317
1315
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
9061
2580
Name Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 AMD Pro A12-8800B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 1315
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 2580
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 321
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 747
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 14.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 207.144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.617
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2.135
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1266
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1613
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1266
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1613
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 AMD Pro A12-8800B

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Carrizo
Launch date Q2'15 3 June 2015
Place in performance rating 1687 1661
Processor Number E5-4648V3
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
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 1.70 GHz 2.1 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 87°C
Maximum frequency 2.20 GHz 3.4 GHz
Number of cores 12 4
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 24 4
Compute Cores 12
L2 cache 2 MB
Number of GPU cores 8
Transistor count 3100 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 68 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 DDR3 / DDR3L-2133
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 FP4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 Watt 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
AMD App Acceleration
AMD Elite Experiences
AMD HD3D technology
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
VirusProtect

Virtualization

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 800 MHz
iGPU core count 512
Number of pipelines 512
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12