Sunday, January 16, 2011

Intel Xeon

Xeon
  • Gainestown – 45 nm process technology
    • Same processor dies as Bloomfield
    • 256 KB L2 cache
    • 8 MB L3 cache, 4MB may be disabled
    • QuickPath up to 6.4GT/s
    • Hyper-Threading is included in some models
    • 781 million transistors
    • Introduced March 29, 2009
    • Variants
      • W5590, W5580, X5570, X5560, X5550, E5540, E5530, L5530, E5520, L5520, L5518 – 4 Cores, 8 MB L3 cache, HT
      • E5506, L5506, E5504 – 4 cores, 4 MB L3 cache, no HT
      • L5508, E5502, E5502 – 2 cores, 4 MB L3 cache, no HT