Xeon E7-8830 vs E5-2689

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1063not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesXeonIntel Xeon E7
Power efficiency5.14no data
Architecture codenameSandy Bridge-EP (2012)Westmere (2010−2011)
Release date6 March 2012 (12 years ago)5 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,280

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830 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 cores8 (Octa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1616
Base clock speed2.6 GHz2.13 GHz
Boost clock speed3.6 GHz2.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataQPI
Bus rateno data6.4 GT/s
Multiplierno data16
L1 cache64 KB (per core)512 KB
L2 cache256 KB (per core)2 MB
L3 cache20 MB (shared)24 MB
Chip lithography32 nm32 nm
Die size435 mm2513 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data64 °C
Number of transistors2,270 million2600 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830 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 configuration28 (Multiprocessor)
Socket2011FCLGA1567,LGA1567
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technologyno data1.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3-800, DDR3-978, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, Speed-1066
Maximum memory sizeno data4 TB
Max memory channelsno data4
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.113 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardN/Ano data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes40no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 March 2012 5 April 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 105 Watt

Xeon E5-2689 has an age advantage of 11 months.

Xeon E7-8830, on the other hand, has 9.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E5-2689 and Xeon E7-8830. We've got no test results to judge.


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