AMD Opteron 840 vs Intel Xeon W5590

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket 940 Intel Socket 1366
Process size 130 nm 45 nm
Transistors 106 million 731 million
Die size 193 mm² 263 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA8
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 1400 MHz 3.333 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.6 GHz
Base clock 200 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 7.0x 25.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.5 V 1.35 V
TDP 82 W 130 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Server/Workstation
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date May 18th, 2004 Aug 9th, 2009
Codename SledgeHammer Gainestown
Generation Opteron Xeon
Part OSA840CEP5AV SLBGE
Memory support unknown Dual-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 1 4
Total Threads 1 8
SMP # CPUs 1 2
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 128K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 1MB 256K (per core)
Cache L3 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AMD64 Yes
EIST Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSSE3 Yes
TXT Yes
VT-x Yes
XD-Bit Yes

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