Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 Intel Xeon E3 v3
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon E3
• Generation
  4 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 -

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

• Base Frequency
  2.2 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  10 4
• CPU Threads
  20 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  2.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.5 GHz

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 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  40 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 80 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Haswell S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  20.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2013
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 1150
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d