Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon E5-2620 v2
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Year of release 2013
Performance 4.97

Summary

Intel started Xeon E5-2620 v2 sales 1 September 2013 at a recommended price of $417. This is an Ivy Bridge-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011 processor with a TDP of 80 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

4.97%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Xeon E5-2620 v2 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1159
Value for money0.79
Market segmentServer
Architecture codenameIvy Bridge-EP (2013)
Release date1 September 2013 (9 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$417of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$480 (1.2x MSRP)of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed2.1 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache15 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Die size160 mm2
Maximum core temperature71 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2620 v2 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 configuration2of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M)
SocketFCLGA2011
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2620 v2. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access-
Demand Based Switching+
PAE46 Bit

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
Identity Protection-
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 E5-2620 v2's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Maximum memory size768 GBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels4of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 460.8 (EPYC 9654)
ECC memory support+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5 (EPYC 9654)
PCI Express lanes40of 128 (EPYC 7401)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5-2620 v2. 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.

Xeon E5-2620 v2 4.97

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%

Xeon E5-2620 v2 6261

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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Xeon E5-2620 v2 431

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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Xeon E5-2620 v2 2168

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Xeon E5-2620 v2 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.


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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E5-2620 v2, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E5-2620 v2 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4874 configurations based on Xeon E5-2620 v2 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.2% (11/4874)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.08% (4/4874)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (6/4874)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.04% (2/4874)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.2% (8/4874)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.02% (1/4874)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.02% (1/4874)
RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.06% (3/4874)
RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
0.1% (6/4874)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.2% (8/4874)

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