Xeon E7-2830 vs L5420

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2240not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon E7
Power efficiency2.56no data
Architecture codenameno dataWestmere (2010−2011)
Release date1 January 2008 (16 years ago)5 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,779

Detailed specifications

Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830 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 coresno data8 (Octa-Core)
Threadsno data16
Base clock speed2.5 GHz2.13 GHz
Boost clock speedno data2.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataQPI
Bus rateno data6.4 GT/s
Multiplierno data16
L1 cacheno data512 KB
L2 cacheno data2 MB
L3 cache12 MB L2 Cache24 MB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data513 mm2
Maximum core temperature57 °C64 °C
Number of transistorsno data2600 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.85V-1.35Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830 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 configurationno data2 (Multiprocessor)
SocketLGA771LGA1567
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology-1.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring++
Demand Based Switching+no data
FSB parity+no data

Security technologies

Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++
EPT-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon L5420 and Xeon E7-2830. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3-800, DDR3-978, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, Speed-1066
Maximum memory sizeno data1 TB
Max memory channelsno data4
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.113 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2008 5 April 2011
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 105 Watt

Xeon L5420 has 110% lower power consumption.

Xeon E7-2830, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

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