Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD A6-6420K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD A
• Generation
  4 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD A6-6000
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 --

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.

• Frequency
  3.70 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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 8470D
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  5
• DirectX Version
  11.2
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A6-6420K and Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD A6-6420K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  10.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Richland (Piledriver)
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM2
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q1/2014