AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Embedded Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  1 6
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.60 GHz 2.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 18
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 36
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 and AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G and Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 145 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G and AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 45.00 MB
• Architecture
  Banded Kestrel (Zen) Broadwell E
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP5 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q1/2016