Intel Pentium Gold G6520T vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 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
  10 6
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2643 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
  3.60 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 12
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics 630 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016

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 E5-2643 v4 and Intel Pentium Gold G6520T. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6520T and Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  58 W 135 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6520T and Intel Pentium Gold G6520T, 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
  4.00 MB 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Broadwell E
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q1/2016