Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  3 6
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G2000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2680 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
  2.90 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 14
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 28
• Hyperthreading
  No 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.05 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  48
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7
• DirectX Version
  11.0
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Intel Pentium G2020. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR4-2400
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G2020 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  55 W 120 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G2020 and Intel Pentium G2020, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 35.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge S Broadwell E
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1155 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q1/2016