Intel Xeon D-2738 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3400G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-2700 AMD Ryzen 3000G
• Family
  Intel Xeon D AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

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

• Base Frequency
  2.5 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  8x Sunny Cove -
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• CPU Threads
  16 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 4.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 4 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
  - 11
• Generation
  - 8
• GPU Frequency
  - 1400 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2018
• Shader
  - 704
• 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 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G and Intel Xeon D-2738. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB 64 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  93.8 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• PCIe
  4.0 x 32 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-2738 and AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 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
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  88 W 65 W
• TDP down
  - 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-2738 and AMD Ryzen 5 3400G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Picasso (Zen+)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  15 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux -
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2019
• Socket
  BGA 2579 AM4
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM