Athlon II P320 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2
Primary details
Comparing Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | 829 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.34 | no data |
| Market segment | Workstation | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Xeon (Desktop) | AMD Athlon II |
| Architecture codename | Ivy Bridge-EP (2013) | Champlain (2010−2011) |
| Release date | 10 September 2013 (11 years ago) | 12 May 2010 (14 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,723 | no data |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320 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 | 12 (Dodeca-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 24 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 2.7 GHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Bus rate | 8GT/s | 3200 MHz |
| L1 cache | 768 KB | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | 3 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 30 MB | no data |
| Chip lithography | 22 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | 160 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 86 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320 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 | 2 | no data |
| Socket | FCLGA2011 | S1g4 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | 25 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® AVX | SSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVM |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| AVX | + | - |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | no data |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Flex Memory Access | - | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | + | no data |
| PAE | 46 Bit | no data |
| Status | Discontinued | no data |
Security technologies
Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
| Secure Key | + | no data |
| OS Guard | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320 are enumerated here.
| VT-d | + | no data |
| VT-x | + | no data |
| EPT | + | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | no data |
| Maximum memory size | 768 GB | no data |
| Max memory channels | 4 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 59.7 GB/s | no data |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | no data |
| PCI Express lanes | 40 | 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.
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
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 | 10 September 2013 | 12 May 2010 |
| Physical cores | 12 | 2 |
| Threads | 24 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 22 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | 25 Watt |
Xeon E5-2697 v2 has an age advantage of 3 years, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 104.5% more advanced lithography process.
Athlon II P320, on the other hand, has 420% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Xeon E5-2697 v2 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon II P320 is a notebook one.
Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Athlon II P320, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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