AMD Opteron X3421 vs Intel Core i7-6950X. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Opteron X3000 Intel Core i 6000X
• Family
  AMD Opteron Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• Generation
  0 6
• 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
  2.1 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  4x -
• CPU Cores
  4 10
• CPU Threads
  4 20
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  - 3.5 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
  0 -
• Execution units
  8 -
• Generation
  0 -
• GPU Frequency
  800 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Toronto) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Shader
  512 -
• Technology
  0 -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6950X and AMD Opteron X3421. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  3 x 8 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 40
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Opteron X3421 and Intel Core i7-6950X 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)
  15 W 140 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  35 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Opteron X3421 and Intel Core i7-6950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Toronto (Excavator) Broadwell E
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  2 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 25 MB
• Part Number
  OX3421AAY43KA -
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q2/2016
• Socket
  FP4 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, AMD-Vt VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d