Atom D525 vs Xeon E3-1280 v5
Primary details
Comparing Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | 1151 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.19 | no data |
| Market segment | Server | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Xeon E3 | Intel Atom |
| Architecture codename | Skylake (2015−2016) | Pinetrail (2009−2011) |
| Release date | 19 October 2015 (8 years ago) | 21 June 2010 (14 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $612 | $63 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 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 cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 3.7 GHz | 1.8 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | 1.8 GHz |
| Bus type | DMI 3.0 | no data |
| Bus rate | 4 × 8 GT/s | no data |
| Multiplier | 37 | no data |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | 112 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | 0 KB |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | 122 mm2 | 87 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 100 °C |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | 176 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | 1 |
| Socket | FCLGA1151 | FCBGA559 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 13 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| AVX | + | - |
| vPro | + | no data |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | - |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | - |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | + |
| TSX | + | - |
| Idle States | + | - |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Demand Based Switching | no data | - |
| PAE | no data | 32 Bit |
| Status | Discontinued | Discontinued |
Security technologies
Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | - |
| EDB | + | + |
| Secure Key | + | no data |
| MPX | + | - |
| SGX | Yes with both Intel® SPS and Intel® ME | no data |
| OS Guard | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | - |
| VT-d | + | - |
| VT-x | + | - |
| EPT | + | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3, DDR4 | DDR2, DDR3 |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | 4 GB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 34.134 GB/s | 6.4 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | no data | Intel GMA 3150 |
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.
| Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 | N/A | no data |
| Max resolution over eDP | N/A | no data |
| Max resolution over DisplayPort | N/A | no data |
| Max resolution over VGA | N/A | no data |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | N/A | no data |
| OpenGL | N/A | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | no data |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | no data |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
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.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
wPrime 32
wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 19 October 2015 | 21 June 2010 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 13 Watt |
Xeon E3-1280 v5 has an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.
Atom D525, on the other hand, has 515.4% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Xeon E3-1280 v5 is a server/workstation processor while Atom D525 is a notebook one.
Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon E3-1280 v5 and Atom D525, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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