Comparison of Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E5	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	16	16
Frequency (GHz)	2.6	2.3
CPU Threads	32	32
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.6	3.6
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	2.8	3
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	DDR4-2400	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	40	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2014
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	LGA 2011-3	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	40	40
Architecture	Broadwell EP	Haswell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	145	135
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	22,462	21,042
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	150	139
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,381	2,544
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.83	1.73
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	29.34	25.98
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,240	3,740
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	59,730	54,216