Xeon E5-2628 V3 vs Silver 4309Y

Place in the ranking	632	1169
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Server
Power efficiency	10.92	5.92
Architecture codename	Ice Lake-SP (2021)	Haswell-EP (2014−2015)
Release date	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)	8 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3 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 cores	8 (Octa-Core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	16	16
Base clock speed	2.8 GHz	2.5 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.6 GHz	3 GHz
L1 cache	64K (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	256K (per core)
L3 cache	12 MB (shared)	20 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	10 nm	22 nm
Die size	no data	356 mm²
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	76 °C	no data
Number of transistors	no data	2,600 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3 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 configuration	2	2
Socket	FCLGA4189	2011-3
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	85 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512	no data
AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+
vPro	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
TSX	+	+
Deep Learning Boost	+	-

Security technologies

Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	+
EDB	+	no data
SGX	Yes with Intel® SPS	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3 are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	+
VT-x	+	+
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-2667	DDR4-2133
Maximum memory size	6 TB	no data
Max memory channels	8	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Silver 4309Y and Xeon E5-2628 V3.

PCIe version	4.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	64	40

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.

Xeon Silver 4309Y 12.34
+128%

Xeon E5-2628 V3 5.42

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.

Xeon Silver 4309Y 19237
+128%

Xeon E5-2628 V3 8447