Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 vs AMD Opteron 3280. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Opteron
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD Opteron 3000
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-1660 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
  3.70 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• 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
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Opteron 3280 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 and AMD Opteron 3280 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2, 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 AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Zurich (Bulldozer)
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 AM3+
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q1/2012