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

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

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

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
  2.80 GHz 2.66 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz No
• CPU Threads
  16 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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.

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

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  105 W 95 W
• TDP up
  No No
• TDP (PL2)
  No No
• TDP down
  No No
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y, 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-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1
• L2-Cache
  No 6.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB No
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Yorkfield
• Technology
  10 nm 45 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 LGA 775
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2008