Xeon Gold 5220R vs Opteron 246 HE

Primary details

Comparing Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated263
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data26.56
Market segmentServerServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon Gold
Power efficiencyno data13.02
Architecture codenameSledgeHammer (2003−2005)Cascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release dateFebruary 2004 (20 years ago)24 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,555

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R 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)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads148
Base clock speedno data2.2 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz4 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data22
L1 cache128 KB1.5 MB
L2 cache1 MB24 MB
L3 cache0 KB35.75 MB
Chip lithography130 nm14 nm
Die size193 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data86 °C
Number of transistors106 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R 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 configuration2no data
Socket940FCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt150 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4-2667
Maximum memory sizeno data1 TB
Max memory channelsno data6
Maximum memory bandwidthno data128.001 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Opteron 246 HE and Xeon Gold 5220R.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data48

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 24
Threads 1 48
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 150 Watt

Opteron 246 HE has 172.7% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 5220R, on the other hand, has 2300% more physical cores and 4700% more threads, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

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