Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F vs AMD A10-9700

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD A10-9700
Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F AMD A10-9700

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F or AMD A10-9700 - 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 Platinum 8160F has 24 cores with 48 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 768 GB of memory is supported in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F was released in Q3/2017.

The AMD A10-9700 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD A10-9700 was released in Q3/2017.
Intel Xeon Platinum (89) Family AMD A (112)
Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (16) CPU group AMD A10-9700 (1)
1 Generation 7
Skylake Architecture Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F has 24 CPU cores and can calculate 48 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F is 2.10 GHz (3.70 GHz) while the AMD A10-9700 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD A10-9700 is at 3.50 GHz (3.80 GHz).

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Characteristic AMD A10-9700
24 Cores 4
48 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.10 GHz Frequency 3.50 GHz
3.70 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.80 GHz
2.60 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Characteristic AMD A10-9700
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F or AMD A10-9700 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 R7 - 384 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency 1.03 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 R7 - 384 (Bristol Ridge)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode
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 Platinum 8160F can use up to 768 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 128.1 GB/s. The AMD A10-9700 supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 38.4 GB/s.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Characteristic AMD A10-9700
DDR4-2666 Memory DDR4-2400
768 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
6 (Hexa Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
128.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 38.4 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache 2.00 MB
33.00 MB L3 Cache --
3.0 PCIe version 3.0
48 PCIe lanes 8
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F is 160 W, while the AMD A10-9700 has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Characteristic AMD A10-9700
160 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down 45 W
-- Tjunction max. 90 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F is manufactured in 14 nm and has 33.00 MB cache. The AMD A10-9700 is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Characteristic AMD A10-9700
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, AVX-512 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
LGA 3647 Socket AM4 (PGA 1331)
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2017
4860 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F (100%)
AMD A10-9700 (57%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F (100%)
AMD A10-9700 (9%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz
161 (100%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
92 (57%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
3444 (100%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
303 (9%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
596 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1844 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
556 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1745 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
705 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1744 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
231 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
716 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
AMD Radeon R7 - 384 (Bristol Ridge) @ 1.03 GHz
787 (100%)

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 Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3660 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F
24C 48T @ 2.10 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
762 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F AMD A10-9700
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