Xeon E5-2620: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon E5-2620
2012
6 cores / 12 threads, 95 Watt
3.33

Xeon E5-2620 provides poor benchmark performance at 3.33% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon E5-2620 sales 6 March 2012 at a recommended price of $36. This is a Sandy Bridge-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2500 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Xeon E5-2620 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1574
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.73
Market segmentServer
Power efficiency3.32of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameSandy Bridge-EP (2012)
Release date6 March 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$36of 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed2 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.5 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate7.2 GT/s
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)
L3 cache15360 KB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size435 mm2
Maximum core temperature77 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors2,270 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2620 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 configuration2of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA2011
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2620. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology1.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access-
Demand Based Switching+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2620's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3
Maximum memory size384 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels4of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth42.6 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes40of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5-2620. 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.

Xeon E5-2620 3.33

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 E5-2620 5291

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Xeon E5-2620 405

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Xeon E5-2620 1960

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon E5-2620's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon X5687 100.3
Opteron 6328 100.3
Xeon E5-2620 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon E5-2620 is Opteron 6328, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon E5-2620:

Opteron 6376 105.41
Opteron 6328 100.3
Xeon E5-2620 100
Opteron 3380 78.08
Opteron 3365 77.48

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E5-2620, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E5-2620 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3596 configurations using Xeon E5-2620 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.2% (8/3596)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.2% (7/3596)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.2% (8/3596)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.03% (1/3596)
RX 6800 XT Radeon RX 6800 XT
0.03% (1/3596)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.03% (1/3596)
RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.06% (2/3596)
RTX A5500 RTX A5500
0.03% (1/3596)
RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
0.03% (1/3596)

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