Intel's Xeon E5-Series Line-Up Expands; Gets Explained
Now that Intel has launched more than 30 Xeon E5-series CPUs, we felt it necessary to revisit the product family and help you sort out the company's nomenclature. We're even taking the opportunity to list out all of the specifications in one place!
We got an early look at Intel's latest business-class processors with Intel Xeon E5-2600: Doing Damage With Two Eight-Core CPUs. However, that piece only covered one SKU (the workstation-oriented E5-2687W) in a very crowded line-up of dual-socket-capable chips.
Recently, the company expanded the dual-socket segment to include more entry-level models (the Xeon E5-2400s) and added a number of four-socket-capable processors (the Xeon E5-4600s).
The following list comes from our E5-2600 story and covers all 17 of those models.
| Cores/Threads | Cache | TDP | QPI | Memory Support | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced | |||||
| Xeon E5-2690 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 135 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2680 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 130 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2670 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 115 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2665 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 115 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2660 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 95 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2650 | 8/16 | 20 MB | 95 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Standard | |||||
| Xeon E5-2640 | 6/12 | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2630 | 6/12 | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2620 | 6/12 | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Basic | |||||
| Xeon E5-2609 | 4/4 | 10 MB | 80 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
| Xeon E5-2603 | 4/4 | 10 MB | 80 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
| Additional LGA 2011 SKUs | |||||
| Xeon E5-2687W | 8/16 | 20 MB | 150 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2667 | 6/12 | 15 MB | 130 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2643 | 4/8 | 10 MB | 130 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
| Xeon E5-2637 | 2/4 | 5 MB | 80 W | ||
| Low Power | |||||
| Xeon E5-2650L | 8/16 | 20 MB | 70 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2630L | 6/12 | 15 MB | 60 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
In addition, there are now eight Xeon E5-4600 CPU models and nine Xeon E5-2400-series processors. The more detailed breakdown of those goes as follows:
| Cores/Threads | Base Clock | Cache | TDP | QPI | Memory Support | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xeon E5-2400 | ||||||
| Xeon E5-2470 | 8/16 | 2.3 GHz | 20 MB | 95 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2450L | 8/16 | 1.8 GHz | 20 MB | 70 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2450 | 8/16 | 2.1 GHz | 20 MB | 95 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-2440 | 6/12 | 2.4 GHz | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2430L | 6/12 | 2 GHz | 15 MB | 60 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2430 | 6/12 | 2.2 GHz | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2420 | 6/12 | 1.9 GHz | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-2407 | 4/4 | 2.2 GHz | 10 MB | 80 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
| Xeon E5-2403 | 4/4 | 1.8 GHz | 10 MB | 80 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
| Xeon E5-4600 | ||||||
| Xeon E5-4650L | 8/16 | 2.6 GHz | 20 MB | 115 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-4650 | 8/16 | 2.7 GHz | 20 MB | 130 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-4640 | 8/16 | 2.4 GHz | 20 MB | 95 W | 8 GT/s | DDR3-1600 |
| Xeon E5-4620 | 8/16 | 2.2 GHz | 16 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-4617 | 6/6 | 2.9 GHz | 15 MB | 130 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-4610 | 6/12 | 2.4 GHz | 15 MB | 95 W | 7.2 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-4607 | 6/12 | 2.2 GHz | 12 MB | 95 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1333 |
| Xeon E5-4603 | 4/8 | 2 GHz | 10 MB | 95 W | 6.4 GT/s | DDR3-1066 |
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Would love to see Toms review one of the Quad Socket Xeon E5-4600..!!
Great price/performance, especially with dual socket boards. The quad core ones are around the 300 dollar range too!
prettier than the previous videos
If I just could have that girl.. oh.. yes! and one of those Xeons too
I think clockspeed is a rather odd omission from that top table, are we just supposed to trust that the bigger model numbers with bigger TDPs are faster?
I wonder what are their price?
Wanna see some E7s. Quad socket 10 core procs FTW!
Kudos to the girl, she went from poor to mediocre. A big improvement in her presentation.
I'm wondering if Intel included too many models. It's a bit crowded, and could easily confuse people looking into these products and cause analysis paralysis.
Hey, where in the charts are the E5-16xx models?
How about some clock speeds?
And no mention of DDIO and other E5 Xeon-specific features?
I wonder what are their price?
To darn high, for the most part.
You can find them here:
Eek! Where did my URL go?
Maybe plain text will work:
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59138
Would love to see Toms review one of the Quad Socket Xeon E5-4600..!!
...and an Eurocom Panther 4.0
And can we get benchmarks how these do on gaming? And also windows 7 and 8 performance comparsion.
This is incorrect:
Xeon E5-2643 4/8 10 MB 130 W 6.4 GT/s DDR3-1066
The E5-2643 is 8.0 GT/s and DDR3-1600