Xeon E5606: specs and benchmarks

Summary

Intel started Xeon E5606 sales 14 February 2011 at a recommended price of $46. This is a Westmere-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 133 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1366,LGA1366 processor with a TDP of 80 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Xeon E5606 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking	2162
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.43
Market segment	Server
Power efficiency	1.76	of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codename	Westmere-EP (2010−2011)
Release date	14 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$46	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	4
Base clock speed	2.13 GHz	of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed	0.13 GHz	of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
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	32 nm	of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size	239 mm2
Number of transistors	1,170 million	of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5606 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	2	of 8 (Opteron 842)
Socket	FCLGA1366,LGA1366
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5606. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-
Idle States	+
Demand Based Switching	+
PAE	40 Bit

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 E5606's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3
Maximum memory size	288 GB	of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels	3	of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version

2.0

of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5606. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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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.

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Closest competitors

Xeon E5606's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.

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