Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Core2 Duo E7300. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v3 Intel Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  5 2
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 No

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 2.66 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• CPU Threads
  12 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz No
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  2.8 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU -
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No -
• JPEG
  No -
• VC-1
  No -
• VP8
  No -
• VP9
  No -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E7300 and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 16 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR2-1066 / DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  40 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 and Intel Core2 Duo E7300 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 80 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  85 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  - No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 and Intel Core2 Duo E7300, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell E Wolfdale
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1
• L2-Cache
  - 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  15 MB No
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2008
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 775
• Technology
  22 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x