AMD Opteron X3216 vs Intel Core i7-6700. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Opteron X3000 Intel Core i 6000
• Family
  AMD Opteron Intel Core i7
• Generation
  - 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Core i7-7700

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

• Base Frequency
  1.6 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3 GHz 4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.7 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
  4 24
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  800 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 256 (Toronto) Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Shader
  256 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6700 and AMD Opteron X3216. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-1600 -
• PCIe
  3 x 8 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Opteron X3216 and Intel Core i7-6700 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 65 W
• TDP down
  12 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Opteron X3216 and Intel Core i7-6700, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Toronto (Excavator) Skylake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 8 MB
• Part Number
  OX3216AAY23KA -
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q3/2015
• Socket
  FP4 LGA 1151
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, AMD-Vt VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d