Xeon E-2478 vs Itanium 9140N

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Primary details

Comparing Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated319
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data82.67
Market segmentServerServer
Power efficiencyno data22.22
Architecture codenameno dataRaptor Lake-S (2023−2024)
Release date1 October 2007 (17 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$568

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical coresno data8 (Octa-Core)
Threadsno data16
Base clock speed1.6 GHz2.8 GHz
Boost clock speedno data5.2 GHz
Bus rateno data16 GT/s
L1 cacheno data80 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data2 MB (per core)
L3 cache18 MB L3 Cache24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography90 nmIntel 7 nm
Die sizeno data257 mm2
Maximum core temperature76 °C100 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketPPGA611FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)104 Watt80 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-+
Turbo Boost Technology-2
Hyper-Threading Technology++
Idle States-+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switching+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data+
FSB parity+no data

Security technologies

Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB-+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5-4800
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Itanium 9140N and Xeon E-2478.

PCIe versionno data5
PCI Express lanesno data16

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2007 14 December 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 104 Watt 80 Watt

Xeon E-2478 has an age advantage of 16 years, and 30% lower power consumption.

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