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

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

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

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

• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.9 GHz 4.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.9 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 4.2 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
  - 11.2
• Execution units
  - 3
• Generation
  - 5
• GPU Frequency
  - 800 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 8470D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2013
• Shader
  - 192
• 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 A6-6420K and Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD A6-6420K 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)
  130 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD A6-6420K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Richland (Piledriver)
• 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
  10 MB 1 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q1/2014
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM2
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V