Opteron 156 vs Intel Xeon E5 1607 v3
We compared two server CPUs: Opteron 156 with 1 cores 3GHz and Intel Xeon E5 1607 v3 with 4 cores 3.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
Opteron 156 's Advantages
Lower TDP (104W vs 140W)
Intel Xeon E5 1607 v3 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 400)
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 3GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 90nm)
Score
General Parameters
May 2005
Release Date
Sep 2014
AMD
Manufacturer
Intel
Server
Type
Server
Venus
Core Architecture
Haswell-EP
AMD Socket 939
Socket
Intel Socket 2011-3
On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)
Integrated Graphics
N/A
Opteron (Venus (E4))
Generation
Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)
Package
0.114 billions
Transistor Count
2.6 billions
90 nm
Manufacturing Process
22 nm
104 W
Power Consumption
140 W
-
Foundry
Intel
115 mm²
Die Size
356 mm²
CPU Performance
3 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.1 GHz
0
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
0
1
Total Core Count
4
1
Total Thread Count
4
200 MHz
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
15.0
Multiplier
31.0
128 KB
L1 Cache
64 K per core
1 MB
L2 Cache
256 K per core
-
L3 Cache
10 MB shared
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
1
SMP
1
Memory Parameters
DDR1-400
Memory Types
DDR4-1866
2
Max Memory Channels
4
No
ECC Memory Support
Yes
Miscellaneous
-
PCIe Version
3
-
PCIe Lanes
40
