Athlon Gold 3150U vs Xeon Gold 6244

Primary details

Comparing Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	586	1651
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	11.90	no data
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	Intel Xeon Gold	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codename	Cascade Lake (2019−2020)	Dali (Zen)
Release date	2 April 2019 (5 years ago)	7 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,925	no data
Current price	$989 (0.3x MSRP)	$446

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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	8 (Octa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	16	4
Base clock speed	3.6 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	4.4 GHz	3.3 GHz
Bus support	4 × 8 GT/s	no data
L1 cache	512 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	8 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	24.75 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	74 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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	4 (Multiprocessor)	no data
Socket	FCLGA3647	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512	DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	no data	+
AVX	+	+
vPro	+	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Speed Shift	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
TSX	+	no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Status	Launched	no data

Security technologies

Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	no data	+
VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-2933	DDR4
Maximum memory size	1 TB	32 GB
Max memory channels	6	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	140.8 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Gold 6244 and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	48	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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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.

Xeon Gold 6244 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 374% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	12.27	2.59
Recency	2 April 2019	7 January 2020
Physical cores	8	2
Threads	16	4
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	15 Watt

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