Xeon Silver 4210R vs Athlon Gold 3150U
Aggregate performance score
Xeon Silver 4210R outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by a whopping 279% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1741 | 795 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 28.01 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Server |
| Series | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) | Intel Xeon Silver |
| Power efficiency | 15.84 | 9.01 |
| Architecture codename | Dali (Zen) (2020) | Cascade Lake (2019−2020) |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (4 years ago) | 24 February 2020 (4 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $511 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R 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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 10 (Deca-Core) |
| Threads | 4 | 20 |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.3 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | DMI 3.0 |
| Bus rate | no data | 4 × 8 GT/s |
| Multiplier | 24 | 24 |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | 640 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 10 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 13.75 MB |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Maximum core temperature | 95 °C | 84 °C |
| Number of transistors | 4500 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | + |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R 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.
| Socket | FP5 | FCLGA3647 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 100 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
| vPro | no data | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | no data | + |
| Speed Shift | no data | + |
| Turbo Boost Technology | no data | 2.0 |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | no data | + |
| TSX | - | + |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | no data | - |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
| Deep Learning Boost | - | + |
Security technologies
Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | no data | + |
| EDB | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | - |
| VT-d | no data | + |
| VT-x | no data | + |
| EPT | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | DDR4-2400 |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | 1 TB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | 6 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | 115.212 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | + | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | 48 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 2.51 | 9.52 |
| Recency | 6 January 2020 | 24 February 2020 |
| Physical cores | 2 | 10 |
| Threads | 4 | 20 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 100 Watt |
Athlon Gold 3150U has 566.7% lower power consumption.
Xeon Silver 4210R, on the other hand, has a 279.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 month, and 400% more physical cores and 400% more threads.
The Xeon Silver 4210R is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Gold 3150U in performance tests.
Be aware that Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4210R is a server/workstation one.
Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon Gold 3150U and Xeon Silver 4210R, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
Similar processor comparisons
We picked several similar comparisons of processors in the same market segment and performance relatively close to those reviewed on this page.
