AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD A10-7000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Family
  AMD A Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  4 6
• Predecessor
  - Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 14
• CPU Threads
  4 28
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (14 Cores)
  - 3 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  8 -
• Generation
  6 -
• GPU Frequency
  720 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Kaveri) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2014 -
• Shader
  512 -
• Technology
  28 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 and AMD A10-7850K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR3-2133 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  16 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-7850K and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 135 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-7850K and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kaveri (Steamroller) Broadwell E
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 35 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q1/2016
• Socket
  FM2+ LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d