Intel Xeon Silver 4310 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3. 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
  3 5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4300 Intel Xeon E5 v3
• Predecessor
  No --
• Successor
  No Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

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
  2.10 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  12 12
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  24 24
• Hyperthreading
  Yes, SMT Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 and Intel Xeon Silver 4310. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  8 4

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4310 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 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 Silver 4310 and Intel Xeon Silver 4310, 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
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  No --
• L3-Cache
  18.00 MB 30.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Haswell E
• Technology
  10 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2014