Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4300 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000
• Family
  Intel Xeon Silver Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  3 2
• Predecessor
  No No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Successor
  No No

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

• Base Frequency
  2.8 GHz 2.66 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• CPU Threads
  16 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz No
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 and Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  8 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR2-800 / DDR3-1066
• PCIe
  4 x 64 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 90 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  105 W 95 W
• TDP (PL2)
  No No
• TDP down
  No No
• TDP up
  No No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Yorkfield
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1
• L2-Cache
  No 6 MB
• L3-Cache
  12 MB No
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2008
• Socket
  LGA 4189 LGA 775
• Technology
  10 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-d