Intel Xeon Silver 4109T vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Silver Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  1 6
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4100 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3
• Successor
  Intel Xeon Silver 4209T --

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
  2.00 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 14
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.00 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  16 28
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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 no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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 No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 and Intel Xeon Silver 4109T. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4109T and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  70 W 135 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4109T and Intel Xeon Silver 4109T, 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, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  11.00 MB 35.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake SP Broadwell E
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q1/2016