AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8160. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 3000 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100
• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Xeon Platinum
• Generation
  4 1
• 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
  3.5 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 24
• CPU Threads
  4 48
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.5 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (24 Cores)
  - 2.6 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
  3 -
• Generation
  8 -
• GPU Frequency
  1000 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2018 -
• Shader
  192 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 and AMD Athlon 3000G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  16 48
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 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)
  35 W 150 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Xeon Platinum 8160, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen) Skylake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 33.00 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q3/2017
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 3647
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d