Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD A8-6500T. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD A8-6000
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD A
• Generation
  4 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.9 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.9 GHz 3.1 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
  - 11.2
• Execution units
  - 4
• Generation
  - 5
• GPU Frequency
  - 720 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 8550D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2013
• Shader
  - 256
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A8-6500T and Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• PCIe lanes
  40 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD A8-6500T 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)
  130 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD A8-6500T, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Richland (Piledriver)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  10 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2013
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM2
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V