Comparing AMD Athlon II X2 280 vs AMD Athlon II X2 280

description_compare AMD Athlon II X2 280 and Intel Xeon E3-1270

• Name
  AMD Athlon II X2 280 Intel Xeon E3-1270
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Xeon E3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) Intel Xeon E3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 2 4 / 8
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  2x 4x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 3.40 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  -- 3.80 GHz

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  2.0 2.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  No Yes

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 80 W

• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1155
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Propus Sandy-Bridge
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux Windows 10, Linux
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• Release date
  Q1/2013 Q2/2011
• Release price
  -- 339 $