Intel Xeon Silver 4215R vs AMD Ryzen 3 3250C. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Silver AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  2 2
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4200 AMD Ryzen 3000C

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
  3.20 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  16 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 AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• 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
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• 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 AMD Ryzen 3 3250C and Intel Xeon Silver 4215R. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4215R and AMD Ryzen 3 3250C to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4215R and Intel Xeon Silver 4215R, 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, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  11.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cascade Lake Picasso (Zen+)
• Technology
  14 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 FP5
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q3/2020