Xeon Platinum 9282 vs Athlon X4 970

Primary details

Comparing Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2060not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency2.42no data
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)Cascade Lake-AP (2019)
Release date27 July 2017 (7 years ago)2 April 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)56 (Hexapentaconta-Core)
Threads4112
Base clock speed3.8 GHz2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz3.8 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data26
L1 cache128 KB (per core)3.5 MB
L2 cache512 KB (per core)56 MB
L3 cache0 KB77 MB (shared)
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size246 mm2no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)74 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 million8,000 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier+-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282 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 configuration18
SocketAM4Intel BGA5903
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt400 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
FMA++
AVX++
PowerNow-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
SIPP-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4-2933
Maximum memory sizeno data2 TiB
Max memory channelsno data12
Maximum memory bandwidthno data281.6 GB/s

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 July 2017 2 April 2019
Physical cores 4 56
Threads 4 112
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 400 Watt

Athlon X4 970 has 515.4% lower power consumption.

Xeon Platinum 9282, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, 1300% more physical cores and 2700% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon X4 970 and Xeon Platinum 9282. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon X4 970 is a desktop processor while Xeon Platinum 9282 is a server/workstation one.


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