Samsung Exynos 5420 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138F

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Samsung Exynos 5420 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
Samsung Exynos 5420 Intel Xeon Gold 6138F

CPU comparison

Samsung Exynos 5420 or Intel Xeon Gold 6138F - 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 Samsung Exynos 5420 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.90 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 0 memory channels. The Samsung Exynos 5420 was released in Q3/2013.

The Intel Xeon Gold 6138F has 20 cores with 40 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 768 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 6138F was released in Q3/2017.
Samsung Exynos (46) Family Intel Xeon Gold (148)
Samsung Exynos 5260/5410/5420/5422/5800 (5) CPU group Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 (34)
3 Generation 1
Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 Architecture Skylake
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Samsung Exynos 5420 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Samsung Exynos 5420 is 1.90 GHz while the Intel Xeon Gold 6138F has 20 CPU cores and 40 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 6138F is at 2.00 GHz (3.70 GHz).

Samsung Exynos 5420 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
8 Cores 20
8 Threads 40
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
1.90 GHz
4x Cortex-A15
A-Core 2.00 GHz (3.70 GHz)
1.30 GHz
4x Cortex-A7
B-Core --

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.

Samsung Exynos 5420 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Samsung Exynos 5420 or Intel Xeon Gold 6138F 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.

ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU no iGPU
0.53 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Midgard 2 GPU Generation --
32nm Technology
1 Max. displays
6 Compute units --
96 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory --
11 DirectX Version --

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.

ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU no iGPU
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
No Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC No
No Codec VC-1 No
No Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The Samsung Exynos 5420 can use up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Xeon Gold 6138F supports up to 768 GB of memory in 6 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 128.1 GB/s.

Samsung Exynos 5420 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
LPDDR3e-933 Memory DDR4-2666
Max. Memory 768 GB
0 Memory channels 6 (Hexa Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 128.1 GB/s
No ECC Yes
2.50 MB L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 28.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 48
-- PCIe Bandwidth 47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Samsung Exynos 5420 is --, while the Intel Xeon Gold 6138F has a TDP of 125 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Samsung Exynos 5420 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 125 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Samsung Exynos 5420 is manufactured in 28 nm and has 2.50 MB cache. The Intel Xeon Gold 6138F is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 28.00 MB cache.

Samsung Exynos 5420 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
28 nm Technology 14 nm
Unknown Chip design Monolithic
Armv7-A (32 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
-- Socket LGA 3647
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2013 Release date Q3/2017
-- Release price 2750 $
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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.
Samsung Exynos 5420 Samsung Exynos 5420
ARM Mali-T628 MP6 @ 0.53 GHz
102 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 6138F Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
@ 0.00 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.
Samsung Exynos 5420 Samsung Exynos 5420
8C 8T @ 1.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon Gold 6138F Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
20C 40T @ 3.70 GHz
161 (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.
Samsung Exynos 5420 Samsung Exynos 5420
8C 8T @ 1.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon Gold 6138F Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
20C 40T @ 2.80 GHz
3069 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Samsung Exynos 5420 Intel Xeon Gold 6138F
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