Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.20 GHz 2.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  18 18
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  36 36
• Turbo (18 Cores)
  2.50 GHz 2.80 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  120 W 145 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  45.00 MB 45.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell E Broadwell E
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q1/2016