Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 vs AMD A6-3670K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD A6-3000
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 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
  2.1 GHz 2.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 4
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.6 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 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
  - 440 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 6530D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 1 GB
• Release date
  - Q4/2010
• Shader
  - 320
• 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 A6-3670K and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  40 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and AMD A6-3670K 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 E5-2620 v2 and AMD A6-3670K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Llano (K10)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  15.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2011
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM1
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V