Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs AMD A10-8700P

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD A10-8700P
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 AMD A10-8700P

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 or AMD A10-8700P - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. Up to 1536 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 was released in Q2/2016.

The AMD A10-8700P has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD A10-8700P was released in Q2/2015.
Intel Xeon E5 (71) Family AMD A (112)
Intel Xeon E5 v4 (24) CPU group AMD A10-8000 (1)
6 Generation 5
Broadwell E Architecture Carizzo (Excavator)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 is 3.20 GHz (3.80 GHz) while the AMD A10-8700P has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD A10-8700P is at 1.80 GHz.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Characteristic AMD A10-8700P
8 Cores 4
16 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
3.20 GHz Frequency 1.80 GHz
3.80 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) --
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.20 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Characteristic AMD A10-8700P
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 or AMD A10-8700P has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)
GPU frequency 0.80 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) --
-- GPU Generation 6
Technology 28 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 6
-- Shader 384
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 can use up to 1536 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The AMD A10-8700P supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 34.2 GB/s.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Characteristic AMD A10-8700P
DDR4-1866, DDR4-2133, DDR4-2400 Memory DDR3-2133
1536 GB Max. Memory
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
76.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 34.2 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
20.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version --
40 PCIe lanes --
39.4 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 is 140 W, while the AMD A10-8700P has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Characteristic AMD A10-8700P
140 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 12 W
-- TDP down 35 W
-- Tjunction max. 90 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 is manufactured in 14 nm and has 20.00 MB cache. The AMD A10-8700P is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Characteristic AMD A10-8700P
14 nm Technology 28 nm
Monolithic Chip design Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
LGA 2011-3 Socket AM1
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems
Q2/2016 Release date Q2/2015
1113 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P (41%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P (16%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
946 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 1.80 GHz
386 (41%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
7536 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1063 (14%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
13489 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
2259 (17%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
1158 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
6859 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri) @ 0.80 GHz
614 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
234.1 (100%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 1.80 GHz
66 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-8700P AMD A10-8700P
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
192 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 AMD A10-8700P
Unknown Lenovo Ideapad 500-15ACZ
HP ProBook 430 G3 silber
HP ProBook 455 G3 silber

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