Intel Xeon E3120: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
Intel started Xeon E3120 sales 1 July 2008. This is desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems.
Compatibility-wise, this is LGA775 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.92% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Xeon E3120 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 2394 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.06 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Release date | 1 July 2008 (15 years old) | |
| Current price | $160 | 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.
| Base clock speed | 3.16 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| L3 cache | 6 MB L2 Cache | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Maximum core temperature | 72 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E3120 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.
| Socket | LGA775 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E3120. 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 | - | |
| 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 | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E3120. 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%
Send your test results of Xeon E3120.
Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon E3120 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E3120, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E3120 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 425 configurations based on Xeon E3120 in our database.
