Intel Xeon E3-1505L v5: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Xeon E3-1505L v5 provides poor benchmark performance at 3.20% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
Intel started Xeon E3-1505L v5 sales 27 October 2015 at a recommended price of $433. This is a Skylake-H architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is Intel BGA 1440 processor with a TDP of 25 Watt. It supports LPDDR3-1866 memory.
Primary details
Xeon E3-1505L v5 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1612 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.95 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon E3 | |
| Power efficiency | 12.05 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Skylake-H (2015−2016) | |
| Release date | 27 October 2015 (9 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $433 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | DMI 3.0 | |
| Bus rate | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
| Multiplier | 20 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 256 KB (per core) | |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 122 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 2,300 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E3-1505L v5 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | Intel BGA 1440 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E3-1505L v5. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| vPro | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| TSX | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | + | |
| VT-x | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E3-1505L v5's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | LPDDR3-1866 | |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 34.134 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Xeon E3-1505L v5.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel HD Graphics P530 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E3-1505L v5. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon E3-1505L v5 is Opteron 6272, which is faster by 3% and higher by 21 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon E3-1505L v5:
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E3-1505L v5, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E3-1505L v5 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2 configurations using Xeon E3-1505L v5 in our database.
