Comparison of AMD FX-8140 and Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2

Attribute	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2 ×	AMD FX-8140 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E7	AMD FX
Model	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2	AMD FX-8140
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	15	8
Frequency (GHz)	2.3	3.2
CPU Threads	30	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.9	4.1
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	4.1
Turbo (15 Cores) (GHz)	2.9	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1600	DDR3-1866
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2012
Technology (Nm)	22	32
Socket	LGA 2011	AM3+
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	30	8
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EX	Zambezi
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	130	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	10,207	6,845
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	151	-
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	1,765	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	-	1
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	-	5.52