Xeon E-2478 vs Athlon 64 2850e

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated320
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data82.67
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Power efficiencyno data22.20
Architecture codenameLima (2008−2009)Raptor Lake-S (2023−2024)
Release dateAugust 2008 (16 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$568

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads116
Base clock speedno data2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz5.2 GHz
Bus rateno data16 GT/s
L1 cache128K80 KB (per core)
L2 cache512K2 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size77 mm2257 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)65 °Cno data
Number of transistors122 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketAM2FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)22 Watt80 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data+

Security technologies

Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR5-4800
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478.

PCIe versionno data5
PCI Express lanesno data16

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 8
Threads 1 16
Power consumption (TDP) 22 Watt 80 Watt

Athlon 64 2850e has 263.6% lower power consumption.

Xeon E-2478, on the other hand, has 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Athlon 64 2850e and Xeon E-2478. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon 64 2850e is a desktop processor while Xeon E-2478 is a server/workstation one.


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