Intel Xeon Silver 4214 vs AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4200 AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000
• Family
  Intel Xeon Silver AMD Ryzen Embedded
• Generation
  2 1
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon Silver 4114 -
• 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
  2.2 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 2
• CPU Threads
  24 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  2.4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 3 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
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 3
• Generation
  - 8
• GPU Frequency
  - 1200 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2018
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G and Intel Xeon Silver 4214. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  6 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  48 8
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4214 and AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  85 W 15 W
• TDP down
  - 12 W
• TDP up
  - 25 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4214 and AMD Ryzen Embedded R1606G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cascade Lake Banded Kestrel (Zen)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  16.50 MB 4.00 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q2/2019
• Socket
  LGA 3647 FP5
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM