Intel Xeon D-1537 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon D Intel Xeon E5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-1500 Intel Xeon E5 v3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 5
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2
• Successor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.70 GHz 3.00 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.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 and Intel Xeon D-1537. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-1537 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-1537 and Intel Xeon D-1537, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  12.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell Haswell E
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  BGA 1667 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q3/2014