AMD Athlon PRO 300U vs Intel Xeon E5-2603

AMD Athlon PRO 300U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2019
AMD Athlon PRO 300U
Intel Xeon E5-2603
Intel Socket 2011SERVER
1800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Mar 2012
Intel Xeon E5-2603

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon PRO 300U

65 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the Intel Xeon E5-2603.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E5-2603

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Xeon E5-2603

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Xeon E5-2603

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
TXT
Intel VT-x
Intel VT-d
AES-NI
6.4GT/s QPI

Architecture

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketMobilevsServer
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRaven Ridge 2vsSandy Bridge-EP
Release DateApr 2019vsMar 2012

Cores

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs2
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsNo

Cache

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs10240 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket 2011
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackagevsFC-LGA10
Die Sizeunknownvs294mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Xeon E5-2603
Cpu Frequency2400 MHzvs1800 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.35 V
TDP15 Wvs80 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    3630 points
  • Intel Xeon E5-2603
    1800 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    6441 points
  • Intel Xeon E5-2603
    8640 points

Points - higher is better