Intel Xeon E5-4660 v3: specs and benchmarks

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Year of release 2015
Performance 11.31

Summary

Intel started Intel Xeon E5-4660 v3 sales 1 April 2015. This is a Haswell-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 14 cores and 28 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2900 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011-3 processor with a TDP of 120 Watt and a maximum temperature of 83 °C. It supports DDR4 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

11.31%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Xeon E5-4660 v3 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance rating573
Value for money8.36
Market segmentServer
Architecture codenameHaswell-EP (2014)
Release date1 April 2015 (7 years old)
Current price$249 of 16241 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
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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 cores14 (Tetradeca-Core)
Threads28
Base clock speed2.1 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed2.9 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache256K (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache35 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 4 (Ryzen 7 7840HS)
Die size356 mm2
Maximum core temperature83 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)83 °Cof 105 (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors2,600 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 9 7945HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-4660 v3 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 configuration4of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M)
SocketFCLGA2011-3
Thermal design power (TDP)120 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-4660 v3. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX-
TSX+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access-
PAE46 Bit
Instruction Replay-

Security technologies

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

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
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 E5-4660 v3's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4of 5600 (Ryzen 7 7840HS)
Maximum memory size768 GBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels4of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth68 GB/sof 284.357 (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 E5-4660 v3. 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.

Xeon E5-4660 v3 11.31
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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: 67%

Xeon E5-4660 v3 14256

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Xeon E5-4660 v3 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.


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