Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Intel Core i3-6100. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i3
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 Intel Core i 6000
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 --
• Successor
  -- Intel Core i3-7100

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
  2.40 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  10 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  20 4
• 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
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2015

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
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  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 Intel Core i3-6100 and Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR3-1600DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 and Intel Core i3-6100 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  90 W 51 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4, 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, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  25.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell E Skylake S
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2015