CPU Comparison

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AMD

AMD

AMD Opteron 4256 EE

CORE STATE Valencia

CORE SPECS 8 Cores / 8 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 1600 Base / 2.8 GHz Turbo

CACHE 8 MB (shared)

MAX TDP 35W

ARCHITECTURE Bulldozer

nm

PROCESS 32 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

i

Intel

INTEL

Core i7-980

CORE STATE Gulftown

CORE SPECS 6 Cores / 12 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 3.33 Base / 3.6 GHz Turbo

CACHE 12 MB (shared)

MAX TDP 130W

ARCHITECTURE Westmere

nm

PROCESS 32 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

cinebench_cinebench_r15_multicore

N/A

587

cinebench_cinebench_r15_singlecore

N/A

82

cinebench_cinebench_r20_multicore

N/A

2,446

cinebench_cinebench_r20_singlecore

N/A

345

cinebench_cinebench_r23_multicore

N/A

5,825

cinebench_cinebench_r23_singlecore

N/A

822

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Opteron 4256 EE

i7-980

Core Specs

Cores

8

6 -25.0%

Threads

8

12 +50.0%

Base Clock (GHz)

1,600

3.33 -99.8%

Boost Clock (GHz)

2.8

3.6 +28.6%

Frequency (GHz)

1,600

3.33 -99.8%

Turbo Clock (GHz)

2.8

3.6 +28.6%

Multiplier

8

25 +212.5%

SMP CPUs

2

1 -50.0%

Cache

L1 Cache

384 KB

64 KB (per core)

L2 Cache

8 MB

256 KB (per core)

L3 Cache

8 MB (shared)

12 MB (shared)

Power

TDP (W)

35

130 +271.4%

ACP

32 W

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Architecture

Architecture

Bulldozer

Westmere

Codename

Valencia

Gulftown

Generation

Opteron (Valencia)

Core i7 (Gulftown)

Process Size

32 nm

32 nm

Transistors

1,200 million

1,170 million

Die Size

315 mm²

239 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Intel

Memory

Memory Support

DDR3

DDR3

Memory Bus

Dual-channel

Triple-channel

Memory Bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

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ECC Memory

Yes

No

Platform

Socket

AMD Socket C32

Intel Socket 1366

PCIe

Gen 2

Gen 2

Other

Market

Server/Workstation

Desktop

Production Status

End-of-life

End-of-life

Launch Price

$377

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Part Number

OS4256HJU8KGU

SLBYU

Package

FC-LGA1207

FC-LGA10

Tj Max

64°C

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