Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon W5580

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 1356 Intel Socket 1366
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 32 nm 45 nm
Transistors 1,270 million 731 million
Die size 294 mm² 263 mm²
Package FC-LGA8

Performance

Frequency 1900 MHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo clock up to 2.4 GHz up to 3.466 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 19.0x 24.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.35 V 1.35 V
TDP 95 W 130 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Server/Workstation
Production status unknown End-of-life
Release date May 14th, 2012 Mar 30th, 2009
Codename Sandy Bridge-EN Gainestown
Generation Xeon E5 Xeon
Part SR0LN SLBF2
Memory support DDR3 DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory Yes Yes
PCI Express Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 6 4
Total Threads 12 8
SMP # CPUs 2 2
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 15MB (shared) 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

AES-NI Yes
AVX Yes
EIST Yes 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 Yes
TXT Yes Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes Yes
XD bit Yes
XD-Bit Yes

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