Comparing Intel Xeon E3-1270 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270

description_compare Intel Xeon E3-1270 and AMD Athlon II X2 240e

• Name
  Intel Xeon E3-1270 AMD Athlon II X2 240e
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD Athlon II
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus)
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  4 / 8 2 / 2
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  4x 2x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 2.80 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
  32 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• ECC
  Yes No
• PCIe
  2.0 x 20 2.0
• AES-NI
  Yes No

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 45 W

• Technology
  32 nm 45 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic
• Socket
  LGA 1155 AM3
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Sandy-Bridge Propus
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux Windows 10, Linux
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q3/2009
• Release price
  339 $ --