AMD Athlon 320GE vs AMD Epyc Embedded 3255. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Epyc
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 300 AMD Epyc Embedded 3000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 1

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 4 8 / 16
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  2x Dali 8x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Frequency
  3.50 GHz 2.50 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 3.10 GHz

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
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• Direct X
  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)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Epyc Embedded 3255 and AMD Athlon 320GE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 512 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Bandwidth
  -- 42.6 GB/s
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  3.0 x 8 3.0 x 32
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 320GE and AMD Epyc Embedded 3255 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 55 W
• TDP down
  -- 25 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 320GE and AMD Athlon 320GE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Snowy Owl (Zen)
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  AM4 SP4r2
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q1/2018