Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4310. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon Silver
• Generation
  6 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 Intel Xeon Silver 4300
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 No
• Successor
  -- No

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
  2.40 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  14 12
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  28 24
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes, SMT
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4310 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Intel Xeon Silver 4310 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  120 W 120 W
• TDP up
  -- No
• TDP (PL2)
  -- No
• TDP down
  -- No
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4, 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 VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  -- No
• L3-Cache
  35.00 MB 18.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell E Ice Lake
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 4189
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q2/2021