Intel Xeon D-2141I vs Intel Xeon D-1540. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon D Intel Xeon D
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-2100 Intel Xeon D-1500
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 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
  8 / 16 8 / 16
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  8x 8x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.20 GHz 2.00 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.00 GHz 2.60 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.20 GHz 2.00 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 no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon D-1540 and Intel Xeon D-2141I. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  512 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Bandwidth
  68.2 GB/s 34.1 GB/s
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  3.0 x 32 3.0 x 32
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-2141I and Intel Xeon D-1540 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-2141I and Intel Xeon D-2141I, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  11.00 MB 12.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake Broadwell
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  BGA 2518 BGA 1667
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2015
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux Windows 10, Linux