Athlon Gold 3150U vs Xeon Platinum 8180

Primary details

Comparing Xeon Platinum 8180 and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	207	1743
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.94	no data
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	Intel Xeon Platinum	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	11.12	15.84
Architecture codename	Skylake (server) (2017−2018)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	11 July 2017 (7 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$10,009	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Xeon Platinum 8180 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	28 (Octacosa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	56	4
Base clock speed	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.8 GHz	3.3 GHz
Multiplier	25	24
L1 cache	64K (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	38.5 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	84 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	8,000 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Platinum 8180 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	8 (Multiprocessor)	no data
Socket	FCLGA3647	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	205 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Platinum 8180 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	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	-	+
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	+	-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Xeon Platinum 8180 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 Platinum 8180 and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Platinum 8180 and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-2666	DDR4
Maximum memory size	768 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	6	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	128.001 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 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Platinum 8180 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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	24.09	2.51
Recency	11 July 2017	6 January 2020
Physical cores	28	2
Threads	56	4
Power consumption (TDP)	205 Watt	15 Watt

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