Xeon E-2436 vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
1.91
Xeon E-2436
2023
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
14.16
+641%

Xeon E-2436 outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 641% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1972518
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data98.50
Market segmentLaptopServer
Power efficiencyno data20.62
Architecture codenameno dataRaptor Lake-S (2023−2024)
Release date1 July 2020 (4 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$331

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436 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 coresno data6 (Hexa-Core)
Threadsno data12
Base clock speedno data2.9 GHz
Boost clock speedno data5 GHz
Bus rateno data16 GT/s
L1 cacheno data80 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data18 MB (shared)
Chip lithographyno dataIntel 7 nm
Die sizeno data163 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436 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 configurationno data1
Socketno dataFCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436 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 Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5-4800
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436.

PCIe versionno data5
PCI Express lanesno data16

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium Silver 1.91
Xeon E-2436 14.16
+641%

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.

Pentium Silver 3037
Xeon E-2436 22487
+640%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.91 14.16
Recency 1 July 2020 14 December 2023

Xeon E-2436 has a 641.4% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 3 years.

The Xeon E-2436 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver in performance tests.

Be aware that Pentium Silver is a notebook processor while Xeon E-2436 is a server/workstation one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver and Xeon E-2436, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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