Pentium 350 vs Xeon E5-4620

Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	1319	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.93	no data
Market segment	Server	Server
Power efficiency	3.23	no data
Architecture codename	Sandy Bridge-EP (2012)	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date	14 May 2012 (12 years ago)	21 November 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$400	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350 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 cores	8 (Octa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	16	4
Base clock speed	2.2 GHz	1.2 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.6 GHz	1.2 GHz
Bus rate	7.2 GT/s	5 GT/s
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	256 KB (per core)	256 KB (per core)
L3 cache	16384 KB (shared)	3 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	32 nm	32 nm
Die size	435 mm2	131 mm2
Maximum core temperature	no data	76 °C
Number of transistors	2,270 million	504 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350 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 configuration	4	1
Socket	FCLGA2011	FCLGA1155
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® AVX	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI	+	-
AVX	+	-
vPro	no data	-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	+
Idle States	+	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Flex Memory Access	-	+
Demand Based Switching	+	no data
FDI	no data	-
Fast Memory Access	no data	+

Security technologies

Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	-
EDB	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350 are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	-
VT-x	+	+
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum memory size	384 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	4	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	42.6 GB/s	21 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

N/A

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-4620 and Pentium 350.

PCIe version	3.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	40	2

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 May 2012	21 November 2011
Physical cores	8	2
Threads	16	4
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

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