Xeon E5440: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Xeon E5440 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.48% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
Intel started Xeon E5440 sales 11 November 2007 at a recommended price of $690. This is a Harpertown architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 833 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is LGA771 processor with a TDP of 80 Watt and a maximum temperature of 63 °C. It supports DDR2, DDR3 Depends on motherboard memory.
Primary details
Xeon E5440 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2342 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.04 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Power efficiency | 0.72 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
| Architecture codename | Harpertown (2007−2008) | |
| Release date | 11 November 2007 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $690 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
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 cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.83 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 0.83 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 6 MB (per die) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 12 MB L2 Cache | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 2x 107 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 63 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 820 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| VID voltage range | 0.85V-1.35V |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5440 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 configuration | 2 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | LGA771 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5440. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | + | |
| FSB parity | + |
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-x | + | |
| EPT | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5440's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2, DDR3 Depends on motherboard |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Xeon E5440.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5440. 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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon E5440 is Opteron 3260 HE, which is slower by 4% and lower by 35 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E5440, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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