Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Xeon E5-2660 v2 sales on September 2013 at a recommended price of $850. This is Ivy Bridge-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 10 cores and 20 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a FCLGA2011 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600, DDR3-1866 memory.
It provides good benchmark performance at 41.09 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.
General info
Of Xeon E5-2660 v2 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Value for money (0-100)
20.44
Type
Server
Achitecture codename
Ivy Bridge-EP
Release date
September 2013
Technical specs
Xeon E5-2660 v2'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 v2's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
Number of cores
10
Number of threads
20
Maximum frequency
3 GHz
of 5
L1 cache
64 KB (per core)
of 768
L2 cache
256 KB (per core)
of 16384
L3 cache
25600 KB (shared)
of 65536
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
of 7
Die size
160 mm2
Transistor count
1400 million
of 19200
64 bit support
+
VID voltage range
0.65–1.3V
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5-2660 v2 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Max number of CPUs in a configuration
2
of 8
Socket
FCLGA2011
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2660 v2. 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
+
PAE
46 Bit
Security technologies
Xeon E5-2660 v2 technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
TXT
+
EDB
+
Secure Key
+
OS Guard
+
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2660 v2 are enumerated here.
VT-d
+
VT-x
+
EPT
+
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2660 v2.
Supported memory types
DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600, DDR3-1866
Maximum memory size
768 GB
Max memory channels
4
Maximum memory bandwidth
59.7 GB / s
ECC memory support
+
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of Xeon E5-2660 v2's supported peripherals.
PCIe revision
3.0
Max number of PCIe lanes
40
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Xeon E5-2660 v2. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
41.09
Passmark
13186
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Xeon E5-2660 v2 is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon E5-2660 v2 performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.