Athlon PRO 300GE vs Xeon W3550
Aggregate performance score
Athlon PRO 300GE outperforms Xeon W3550 by a substantial 34% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2164 | 1953 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.22 | no data |
| Market segment | Server | Desktop processor |
| Series | no data | AMD Athlon |
| Power efficiency | 0.60 | 2.99 |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Manufacturer | Intel | no data |
| Architecture codename | Bloomfield (2008−2010) | Zen+ (2018−2019) |
| Release date | 9 August 2009 (16 years ago) | 30 September 2019 (6 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $235 | no data |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE 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 | 3.06 GHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 3.33 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 34 |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 256 KB (per core) | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 12 nm |
| Die size | 263 mm2 | 209.78 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 68 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 731 million | 4950 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE 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 | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | FCLGA1366 | Socket AM4 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | 35 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2 | no data |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| FMA | - | + |
| AVX | - | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 1.0 | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | no data |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | + | no data |
| PAE | 36 Bit | no data |
| Precision Boost 2 | no data | + |
Security technologies
Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE 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 W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-x | + | no data |
| EPT | + | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4-2666 |
| Maximum memory size | 24 GB | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | 3 | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | 42.671 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | + | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A | AMD Radeon Vega 3 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon W3550 and Athlon PRO 300GE.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | no data |
Synthetic benchmarks
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.84 | 2.46 |
| Recency | 9 August 2009 | 30 September 2019 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | 35 Watt |
Xeon W3550 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.
Athlon PRO 300GE, on the other hand, has a 33.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 275% more advanced lithography process, and 271.4% lower power consumption.
The AMD Athlon PRO 300GE is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Xeon W3550 in performance tests.
Be aware that Xeon W3550 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon PRO 300GE is a desktop one.
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