Xeon E7-2850: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Xeon E7-2850 sales 5 April 2011 at a recommended price of $2,558. This is a Westmere architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 10 cores and 20 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2400 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is LGA1567 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt. It supports DDR3-800, DDR3-978, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, Speed-1066 memory.
Primary details
Xeon E7-2850 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon E7 | |
| Architecture codename | Westmere (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 5 April 2011 (13 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,558 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
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 | 10 (Deca-Core) | |
| Threads | 20 | |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | QPI | |
| Bus rate | 6.4 GT/s | |
| Multiplier | 15 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 640 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2.56 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 24 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 513 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 69 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 2600 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E7-2850 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 (Multiprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | LGA1567 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E7-2850. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 1.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + |
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 E7-2850's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3-800, DDR3-978, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, Speed-1066 | |
| Maximum memory size | 1 TB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Max memory channels | 4 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 34.113 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
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