AMD Athlon 650 vs Intel Xeon L5530

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket A Intel Socket 1366
Process size 180 nm 45 nm
Transistors 37 million 731 million
Die size 120 mm² 263 mm²
Package — FC-LGA8
Foundry — Intel

Performance

Frequency 650 MHz 2.4 GHz
Turbo clock — up to 2.666 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 6.5x 18.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.75 V 1.35 V
TDP 38 W 60 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jun 5th, 2000 Aug 9th, 2009
Codename Thunderbird Gainestown
Generation Athlon Model 4 Xeon
Part A0650AMT3BA0650APT3B SLBGF
Memory support DDR1 DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express — Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 1 4
Total Threads 1 8
SMP # CPUs 1 2
Integrated graphics — —

Cache

Cache L1 128K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K 256K (per core)
Cache L3 — 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

EIST — Yes
Enhanced 3DNow! Yes —
HTT — Yes
Intel 64 — Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE — Yes
SSE2 — Yes
SSE3 — Yes
SSE4.2 — Yes
SSSE3 — Yes
TXT — Yes
VT-x — Yes
XD-Bit — Yes

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