Intel Xeon E3-1270 vs AMD A4-4020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD A
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD A4-4000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 2

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 3.20 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 3.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes

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 HD 7480D
• GPU frequency
  0.72 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  4
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2012

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 Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-4020 and Intel Xeon E3-1270. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1270 and AMD A4-4020 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1270 and Intel Xeon E3-1270, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy-Bridge Richland (Piledriver)
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• Socket
  LGA 1155 FM2
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2014