Intel Xeon E5-2660: specs and benchmarks

Summary
Intel started Intel Xeon E5-2660 sales 6 March 2012 at a recommended price of $85. This is Sandy Bridge EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 9.23 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.
General info
Of Xeon E5-2660 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Value for money (0-100)
0.45
Market segment
Server
Architecture codename
Sandy Bridge EP
Release date
6 March 2012
Launch price (MSRP)
$85
Technical specs
Xeon E5-2660's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Xeon E5-2660's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
Number of cores
8
Number of threads
16
Die size
435 mm2
64 bit support
+
VID voltage range
0.6V-1.35V
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5-2660 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Socket
FCLGA2011
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2660. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions
Intel® AVX
AES-NI
+
AVX
+
vPro
+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)
+
Turbo Boost
2.0
Hyper-Threading
+
Idle States
+
Thermal Monitoring
+
Flex Memory Access
-
Demand Based Switching
+
Security technologies
Xeon E5-2660 technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
TXT
+
EDB
+
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2660 are enumerated here.
VT-d
+
VT-x
+
EPT
+
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2660.
ECC memory support
+
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of Xeon E5-2660's supported peripherals.
PCIe revision
3.0
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Xeon E5-2660. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
9.23
Passmark
8187
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Xeon E5-2660 is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon E5-2660 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.