AMD Athlon 240GE vs Intel Xeon E5606

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM4 Intel Socket 1366
Process size 14 nm 32 nm
Transistors 4,800 million 1,170 million
Die size 192 mm² 239 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
Foundry — Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.5 GHz 2.133 GHz
Turbo clock — —
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 35.0x 16.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
TDP 35 W 80 W
Voltage — 1.35 V

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status Active End-of-life
Release date Dec 21st, 2018 Feb 14th, 2011
Codename Zen Westmere-EP
Generation Athlon Xeon
Part unknown SLC2N
Memory support DDR4 Dual-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express — Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 2 4
Total Threads 4 4
SMP # CPUs 1 2
Integrated graphics Radeon Vega 3 —

Cache

Cache L1 96K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 4MB (shared) 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

4.8GT/s QPI — Yes
AES Yes —
AES-NI — Yes
AMD-V Yes —
AMD64 Yes —
AVX Yes —
AVX2 Yes —
BMI1 Yes —
BMI2 Yes —
EIST — Yes
EVP Yes —
F16C Yes —
FMA3 Yes —
Intel 64 — Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SHA Yes —
SMAP Yes —
SMEP Yes —
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes —
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes —
SSSE3 Yes Yes
TXT — Yes
VT-x — Yes
XD-Bit — Yes

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