AMD A8-3800 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A8-3000 Intel Xeon E3 v3
• Family
  AMD A Intel Xeon E3
• Generation
  1 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.7 GHz 3.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.7 GHz 3.9 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
  11 -
• Execution units
  5 -
• Generation
  3 -
• GPU Frequency
  600 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 6550D no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  1 GB -
• Release date
  Q2/2011 -
• Shader
  400 -
• Technology
  32 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 E3-1270 v3 and AMD A8-3800. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-3800 and Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 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)
  65 W 80 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-3800 and Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Llano (K10) Haswell S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q2/2013
• Socket
  FM1 LGA 1150
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d