Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000 Intel Xeon E5 v3
• Family
  Intel Core2 Duo Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  2 5
• Predecessor
  No Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2
• Segment
  Desktop Desktop / Server
• Successor
  No -

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

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 2.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 12
• CPU Threads
  4 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No 3.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 2.7 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
• 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 Xeon E5-2670 v3 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR2-800 / DDR3-1066 DDR4-2133
• PCIe lanes
  - 40
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 and Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 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
  90 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 120 W
• TDP (PL2)
  No -
• TDP down
  No -
• TDP up
  No -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 and Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Yorkfield Haswell E
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  12 MB -
• L3-Cache
  No 30 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2008 Q3/2014
• Socket
  LGA 775 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d