Xeon L5420: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Xeon L5420 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.35% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon L5420 sales 1 January 2008. This is a desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems.

Compatibility-wise, this is LGA771 processor with a TDP of 50 Watt.

Primary details

Xeon L5420 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2255
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentServer
Power efficiency2.56of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Release date1 January 2008 (16 years ago)

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.

Base clock speed2.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
L3 cache12 MB L2 Cacheof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature57 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
VID voltage range0.85V-1.35V

Compatibility

Information on Xeon L5420 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.

SocketLGA771
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon L5420. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Demand Based Switching+
FSB parity+

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-x+
EPT-

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon L5420. 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 L5420 1.35

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 L5420 2143

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 L5420 332

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 L5420 917

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon L5420's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon E5430 105.19
Xeon X5472 102.22
Xeon E5462 101.48
Xeon L5420 100
Xeon X3330 98.52
Xeon X3230 95.56

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon L5420 is Opteron 3260 HE, which is faster by 7% and higher by 63 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon L5420:

Opteron 4386 152.59
Xeon L5420 100

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Recommended GPUs

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