Xeon W-3335 vs 5120

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated197
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
Power efficiencyno data9.37
Architecture codenameWoodcrest (2006)Ice Lake-W (2021)
Release dateJune 2006 (18 years ago)29 July 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$45no data

Detailed specifications

Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335 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 cores2 (Dual-core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads232
Base clock speed1.86 GHz3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed1.87 GHz4 GHz
Bus rateno data8 GT/s
L1 cache0 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache4 MB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature65 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data78 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
VID voltage rangeB2=1.0V-1.5V, G0=.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335 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 configuration12
SocketLGA771FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt250 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
FSB parity+no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++
SGXno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++
EPT-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4-3200
Maximum memory sizeno data4 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335.

PCIe versionno data4
PCI Express lanesno data64

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Xeon 5120 763
Xeon W-3335 39293
+5050%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 16
Threads 2 32
Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 250 Watt

Xeon 5120 has 284.6% lower power consumption.

Xeon W-3335, on the other hand, has 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads, and a 550% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Xeon 5120 and Xeon W-3335. We've got no test results to judge.


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