Xeon Silver 4314 vs Core 2 Duo E6420

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated325
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Power efficiencyno data12.78
Architecture codenameConroe (2006−2007)Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release dateApril 2007 (17 years ago)6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314 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 cores2 (Dual-core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads232
Base clock speed2.13 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.13 GHz3.4 GHz
Bus rate1066 MHzno data
L1 cache64 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache4 MB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nm10 nm
Die size111 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature60 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data86 °C
Number of transistors167 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
VID voltage range0.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314 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 configuration12
SocketPLGA775FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt135 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314. 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-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR4-2667
Maximum memory sizeno data6 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data64

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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.

Core 2 Duo E6420 760
Xeon Silver 4314 28954
+3710%

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.

Core 2 Duo E6420 285
Xeon Silver 4314 1285
+351%

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.

Core 2 Duo E6420 513
Xeon Silver 4314 9243
+1702%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 16
Threads 2 32
Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 135 Watt

Core 2 Duo E6420 has 107.7% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4314, on the other hand, has 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads, and a 550% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo E6420 and Xeon Silver 4314. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Core 2 Duo E6420 is a desktop processor while Xeon Silver 4314 is a server/workstation one.


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