Xeon Bronze 3408U vs Athlon 900

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1076
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data29.04
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Power efficiencyno data4.75
Architecture codenameThunderbird (1999−2000)Sapphire Rapids (2023−2024)
Release date6 March 2000 (24 years ago)10 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899$425

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U 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 cores1 (Single-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads18
Base clock speedno data1.8 GHz
Boost clock speed0.9 GHz1.9 GHz
L1 cache128 KB80K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB2 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB22.5 MB
Chip lithography180 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size102 mm2no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)70 °C79 °C
Number of transistors22 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U 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 configuration11
SocketAFCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt125 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
TSX-+
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1DDR5-4000
Maximum memory sizeno data4 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardN/Ano data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 March 2000 10 January 2023
Physical cores 1 8
Threads 1 8
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 125 Watt

Athlon 900 has 108.3% lower power consumption.

Xeon Bronze 3408U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 22 years, and 700% more physical cores and 700% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Athlon 900 and Xeon Bronze 3408U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon 900 is a desktop processor while Xeon Bronze 3408U is a server/workstation one.


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