Xeon E7-4850 vs Pentium D 960

Primary details

Comparing Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2872not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon E7
Power efficiency0.37no data
Architecture codenamePresler (2005−2007)Westmere (2010−2011)
Release date23 April 2006 (18 years ago)5 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$523$2,837

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850 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 cores2 (Dual-core)10 (Deca-Core)
Threads220
Base clock speed3.6 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.6 GHz2.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataQPI
Bus rateno data6.4 GT/s
Multiplierno data15
L1 cache16 KB (per core)640 KB
L2 cache2 MB (per die)2.56 MB
L3 cache0 KB24 MB
Chip lithography65 nm32 nm
Die size2x 81 mm2513 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data69 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors376 million2600 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.2V-1.3375Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850 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 configuration14 (Multiprocessor)
SocketLGA775,PLGA775LGA1567
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt130 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850. 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
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850 are enumerated here.

VT-d-+
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR3-800, DDR3-978, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, Speed-1066
Maximum memory sizeno data2 TB
Max memory channelsno data4
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.113 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2006 5 April 2011
Physical cores 2 10
Threads 2 20
Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm

Xeon E7-4850 has an age advantage of 4 years, 400% more physical cores and 900% more threads, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium D 960 and Xeon E7-4850. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium D 960 is a desktop processor while Xeon E7-4850 is a server/workstation one.


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