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Intel Xeon E5-2430: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Xeon E5-2430 sales 14 May 2012 at a recommended price of $119. This is Sandy Bridge EN architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1356 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 6.69 percent of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 7763.

General info

Of Xeon E5-2430 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in our rating

770

Value for money (0-100)

17.01

Market segment

Server

Architecture codename

Sandy Bridge EN

Launch date

14 May 2012 (8 years ago)

Launch price (MSRP)

$119

Price now

$62

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Basic processor 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

Threads

Base clock speed

2.2 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Boost clock speed

2.7 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

L1 cache

64 KB (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

256 KB (per core)

of 12288 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

15360 KB (shared)

of 32768 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Chip lithography

32 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Die size

294 mm²

Transistor count

1,270 million

of 16000 (Apple M1)

64 bit support

VID voltage range

0.6V-1.35V

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2430 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

FCLGA1356

Thermal design power (TDP)

95 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2430. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® AVX

AES-NI

AVX

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Turbo Boost Technology

1.0

Hyper-Threading Technology

Idle States

Thermal Monitoring

Flex Memory Access

Demand Based Switching

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-d

VT-x

EPT

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2430's memory controller.

Supported memory types

DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

384 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

ECC memory support

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5-2430. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Overall 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.

6.69

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different tests, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario.

5867

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Xeon E5-2430 is for a gaming PC, compared with system requirements of some popular titles. Remember that sometimes official hardware requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.