Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Xeon X5680

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 2011 Intel Socket 1366
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 32 nm 32 nm
Transistors 2,270 million 1,170 million
Die size 435 mm² 239 mm²
Package FC-LGA10 FC-LGA10

Performance

Frequency 3.1 GHz 3.333 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.8 GHz up to 3.6 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 31.0x 25.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.35 V 1.35 V
TDP 150 W 130 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Server/Workstation
Production status unknown End-of-life
Release date Mar 6th, 2012 Feb 14th, 2010
Codename Sandy Bridge-EP Westmere-EP
Generation Xeon E5 Xeon
Part SR0GXSR0KG SLBV5
Memory support DDR3 Quad-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory Yes Yes
PCI Express Gen 3 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 8 6
Total Threads 16 12
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 20MB (shared) 12MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

6.4GT/s QPI Yes
8.0GT/s QPI Yes
AES-NI Yes 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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