Intel Xeon D-1520: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
Intel started Xeon D-1520 sales 9 March 2015 at a recommended price of $199. This is a Broadwell architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1667 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt and a maximum temperature of 80 °C. It supports DDR4 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 3.21% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Xeon D-1520 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1494 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.39 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon D | |
| Architecture codename | Broadwell (2015−2019) | |
| Release date | 9 March 2015 (9 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $600 (3x MSRP) | of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
Value for money
Performance per price, higher is better.
Technical specs
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 | 2.2 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.6 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 256K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 1.5 MB (per core) | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 246.24 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 80 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 80 °C | of 105 (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 3,200 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon D-1520 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 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FCBGA1667 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon D-1520. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® AVX2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| GPIO | + | |
| Status | Launched |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | |
| EDB | + | |
| Secure Key | + | |
| OS Guard | + |
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 D-1520's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | |
| Maximum memory size | 128 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 34.124 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0/3.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 32 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
| USB revision | 2.0/3.0 | |
| Total number of SATA ports | 6 | |
| Number of USB ports | 8 | |
| Integrated LAN | + | |
| UART | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon D-1520. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon D-1520 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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