AMD Opteron 6386 SE: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Opteron 6386 SE sales 5 November 2012 at a recommended price of $2,408. This is an Abu Dhabi architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 16 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket G34 processor with a TDP of 140 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 5.40% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Opteron 6386 SE processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1061
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.67
Market segmentServer
Architecture codenameAbu Dhabi (2012)
Release date5 November 2012 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,408of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$1065 (0.4x MSRP)of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed2.8 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.5 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache768 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache16 MBof 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache8 MB (per die)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size315 mm2
Number of transistors2,400 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Opteron 6386 SE compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration4of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketG34
Power consumption (TDP)140 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Opteron 6386 SE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Opteron 6386 SE's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Opteron 6386 SE. Overall benchmark performance 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.

Opteron 6386 SE 5.40

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Opteron 6386 SE 8291

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Opteron 6386 SE performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.


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Recommended GPUs

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These are the fastest graphics cards for Opteron 6386 SE in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2 configurations based on Opteron 6386 SE in our database.

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