Intel Xeon D-1548 vs AMD Opteron X3418. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon D AMD Opteron
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-1500 AMD Opteron X3000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 0

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
  8 / 16 4 / 4
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  8x 4x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 2.80 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.60 GHz 3.20 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
  no iGPU AMD Radeon R7 - 384 (Toronto)
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  384
• Max. displays
  3
• Direct X
  -- 0

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Opteron X3418 and Intel Xeon D-1548. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Bandwidth
  38.4 GB/s --
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  3.0 x 32 3 x 8
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-1548 and AMD Opteron X3418 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 35 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-1548 and Intel Xeon D-1548, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  12.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell Toronto (Excavator)
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, AMD-Vt
• Socket
  BGA 1667 FP4
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2015
• Part Number
  -- OX3418AAY43KA