Xeon D-1581 vs Opteron 140 EE

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Primary details

Comparing Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated901
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon D
Power efficiencyno data12.17
Architecture codenameSledgeHammer (2003−2005)Broadwell (2015−2019)
Release dateFebruary 2004 (20 years ago)24 February 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581 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)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads132
Base clock speedno data1.8 GHz
Boost clock speed1.4 GHz2.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Multiplierno data18
L1 cache128 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB1.5 MB (per core)
Chip lithography130 nm14 nm
Die size193 mm2306.18 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data80 °C
Number of transistors106 million3,200 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581 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 (Uniprocessor)
Socket940FCBGA1667
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
GPIOno data+

Security technologies

Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4, DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.124 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Opteron 140 EE and Xeon D-1581.

PCIe versionno data2.0/3.0
PCI Express lanesno data24
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data6
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data+
UARTno data+

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 16
Threads 1 32
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 65 Watt

Opteron 140 EE has 116.7% lower power consumption.

Xeon D-1581, on the other hand, has 1500% more physical cores and 3100% more threads, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

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