Comparing AMD Athlon II X4 740 vs AMD Athlon II X4 740

description_compare Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 and AMD Athlon II X4 740

• Name
  Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 AMD Athlon II X4 740
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Athlon II
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD Athlon II (Trinity)
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.20 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
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  768 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 1
• ECC
  Yes No

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 65 W

• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM2
• L2-Cache
  3.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  30.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Trinity
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE3
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2012