Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220L v3

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 775 Intel Socket 1150
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 45 nm 22 nm
Transistors 820 million 1,400 million
Die size 2x 107 mm² 160 mm²
Package FC-LGA6 FC-LGA12C

Performance

Frequency 3 GHz 1600 MHz
Turbo clock up to 2.3 GHz
Base clock 333 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 9.0x 16.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.3625 V
TDP 95 W 16 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status End-of-life unknown
Release date Aug 10th, 2008 Jun 2nd, 2013
Codename Yorkfield Haswell-WS
Generation Core 2 Quad Xeon E3
Part SLB8W unknown
Memory support DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3, DDR4 Dual-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 3

Cores

Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 6MB (per die) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 4MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

AES-NI Yes
AVX Yes
AVX2 Yes
BMI1 Yes
BMI2 Yes
ECC Yes
EIST Yes Yes
F16C Yes
FMA3 Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSSE3 Yes
TXT Yes Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes Yes
XD bit Yes
iAMT2 Yes
vPro Yes
x8 SDDC Yes

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