AMD Athlon X4 970 vs Intel Xeon E5-2603

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM4 Intel Socket 2011
Process size 28 nm 32 nm
Transistors 1,178 million 1,270 million
Die size 246 mm² 294 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
tCaseMax 74°C
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.8 GHz 1800 MHz
Turbo clock up to 4 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 38.0x 18.0x
Multiplier unlocked Yes No
Voltage 1.475 V 1.35 V
TDP 65 W 80 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status Active unknown
Release date Jul 27th, 2017 Mar 6th, 2012
Codename Bristol Ridge Sandy Bridge-EP
Generation Athlon Xeon E5
Part AD970XAUM44AB SR0LB
Memory support DDR4 Dual-channel DDR3 Quad-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 3

Cores

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

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 10MB (shared)

Notes

Notes This processor comes with an unlocked base clock multiplier, allowing users to set the multiplier value higher than shipped value, to facilitate better overclocking.

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
6.4GT/s QPI Yes
AES Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes Yes
AVX2 Yes
BMI1 Yes
BMI2 Yes
EIST Yes
EVP Yes
F16C Yes
FMA3 Yes
FMA4 Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4 Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
TBM Yes
TXT Yes
Turbo Core Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes
XOP Yes

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