i7-5500DU vs Xeon Silver 4208

Primary details

Comparing Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking988not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation18.65no data
Market segmentServerLaptop
SeriesIntel Xeon SilverIntel Core i7
Power efficiency7.88no data
Architecture codenameCascade Lake (2019−2020)Broadwell (2015−2019)
Release date2 April 2019 (5 years ago)27 December 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$417$393

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU 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 cores8 (Octa-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads164
Base clock speed2.1 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz2.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data8.0 GT/s
Multiplier2124
L1 cache512 KBno data
L2 cache8 MB512 KB
L3 cache11 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature78 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU 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 configuration2 (Multiprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCLGA3647no data
Power consumption (TDP)85 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512no data
AES-NI++
AVX++
vPro+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift+no data
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
TSX+-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU 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 Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2400no data
Maximum memory size1 TB32 GB
Max memory channels6no data
Maximum memory bandwidth115.212 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4812

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2019 27 December 2015
Physical cores 8 2
Threads 16 4

Xeon Silver 4208 has an age advantage of 3 years, and 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Xeon Silver 4208 and Core i7-5500DU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon Silver 4208 is a server/workstation processor while Core i7-5500DU is a notebook one.


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