Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs AMD A8-3850. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 v3 AMD A8-3000
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD A
• Generation
  4 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.1 GHz 2.9 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.5 GHz No turbo

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
  - 11
• Execution units
  - 5
• Generation
  - 3
• GPU Frequency
  - 600 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 6550D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 1 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2011
• Shader
  - 400
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A8-3850 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 and AMD A8-3850 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)
  80 W 100 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 and AMD A8-3850, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell S Llano (K10)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q3/2011
• Socket
  LGA 1150 FM1
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V