Xeon Gold 6526Y vs Athlon II M360

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated155
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data56.09
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Athlon IIno data
Power efficiencyno data14.06
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Emerald Rapids (2023)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,517

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y 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 cores2 (Dual-core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads232
Base clock speedno data2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
L1 cache128 KB80 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB2 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data37.5 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nmIntel 7 nm
Die sizeno data2x 763 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data82 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y 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 configurationno data2
SocketSocket S1 (S1g3)FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt195 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD VirtualizationIntel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
PowerNow+-
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR5-5200
Maximum memory sizeno data4 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
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 II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y.

PCIe versionno data5.0
PCI Express lanesno data80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 14 December 2023
Physical cores 2 16
Threads 2 32
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 195 Watt

Athlon II M360 has 457.1% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 6526Y, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, and 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II M360 and Xeon Gold 6526Y. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon II M360 is a notebook processor while Xeon Gold 6526Y is a server/workstation one.


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