AMD Opteron X3421 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4116. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Opteron X3000 Intel Xeon Silver 4100
• Family
  AMD Opteron Intel Xeon Silver
• Generation
  0 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Xeon Silver 4216

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 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  4x -
• CPU Cores
  4 12
• CPU Threads
  4 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 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
  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 Xeon Silver 4116 and AMD Opteron X3421. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  3 x 8 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 48
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Opteron X3421 and Intel Xeon Silver 4116 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 85 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  35 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Opteron X3421 and Intel Xeon Silver 4116, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Toronto (Excavator) Skylake SP
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  2 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 16 MB
• Part Number
  OX3421AAY43KA -
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q3/2017
• Socket
  FP4 LGA 3647
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, AMD-Vt VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d