Intel Xeon D-2738 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3400G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon D AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-2700 AMD Ryzen 3000G
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 2
• Successor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.70 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.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  11
• Shader
  704
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• 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)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3400G and Intel Xeon D-2738. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-2738 and AMD Ryzen 5 3400G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  88 W 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-2738 and Intel Xeon D-2738, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  15.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Picasso (Zen+)
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  BGA 2579 AM4
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2019