AMD Opteron 3280 vs Intel Core i9-9900K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Opteron 3000 Intel Core i 9000
• Family
  AMD Opteron Intel Core i9
• Generation
  1 9
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Core i9-10900K

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

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.7 GHz 4.7 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 24
• Generation
  - 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q4/2017
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i9-9900K and AMD Opteron 3280. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  16 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Opteron 3280 and Intel Core i9-9900K 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
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 95 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 119 W / 28 s

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Opteron 3280 and Intel Core i9-9900K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Zurich (Bulldozer) Coffee Lake S Refresh
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q4/2018
• Socket
  AM3+ LGA 1151-2
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d