Xeon Gold 6542Y vs Celeron E1500

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking3016not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Power efficiency0.57no data
Architecture codenameAllendale (2006−2009)Emerald Rapids (2023)
Release dateNovember 2008 (16 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$63$2,878

Detailed specifications

Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y 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)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads248
Base clock speed2.2 GHz2.9 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz4.1 GHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)80 KB (per core)
L2 cache512 KB (shared)2 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB60 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size77 mm22x 763 mm2
Maximum core temperature73 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data83 °C
Number of transistors105 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data
VID voltage range0.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y 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 configuration12
SocketLGA775FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt250 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y are enumerated here.

VT-d-+
VT-x-+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR5-5200
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 Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y.

PCIe versionno data5.0
PCI Express lanesno data80

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 24
Threads 2 48
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 250 Watt

Celeron E1500 has 284.6% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 6542Y, on the other hand, has 1100% more physical cores and 2300% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Celeron E1500 and Xeon Gold 6542Y. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Celeron E1500 is a desktop processor while Xeon Gold 6542Y is a server/workstation one.


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