Intel Xeon W3570: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Xeon W3570 provides poor benchmark performance at 2.14% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
Summary
Intel started Xeon W3570 sales 30 March 2009 at a recommended price of $480. This is a Bloomfield architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3460 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1366 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Xeon W3570 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1870 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.30 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Power efficiency | 1.50 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Bloomfield (2008−2010) | |
| Release date | 30 March 2009 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $480 | of 17,906 (tray) (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 | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.46 GHz | of 50 MHz (i486DX-50) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 7475.2 KB (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 256 KB (per core) | of 86016 KB (EPYC 9634) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | of 1179648 KB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 0.18 µm (K6-2+/450ACZ) |
| Die size | 263 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 68 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 731 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon W3570 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 | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FCLGA1366 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon W3570. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2 | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 1.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | + | |
| PAE | 36 Bit | |
| Status | Discontinued |
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 | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon W3570's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 24 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 3 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Xeon W3570.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5.0 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon W3570. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon W3570 is Opteron 3350 HE, which is slower by 17% and lower by 145 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon W3570, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon W3570 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 24 configurations using Xeon W3570 in our database.
