Intel Core i7-970 vs Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 1366 Intel Socket 1150
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 32 nm 22 nm
Transistors 1,170 million 1,400 million
Die size 239 mm² 160 mm²
Package FC-LGA10 FC-LGA12C

Performance

Frequency 3.2 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.466 GHz up to 4 GHz
Base clock 133 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 24.0x 36.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.3 V
TDP 130 W 82 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status End-of-life unknown
Release date Jul 19th, 2010 Jun 2nd, 2013
Codename Gulftown Haswell-WS
Generation Core i7 Xeon E3
Part SLBVF SR150
Memory support DDR3 Triple-channel DDR3, DDR4 Dual-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 3

Cores

Total Cores 6 4
Total Threads 12 8
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 12MB (shared) 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

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

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