Comparing Intel Xeon E3-1270 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270

description_compare Intel Xeon E3-1270 and Intel Core i5-2500

• Name
  Intel Xeon E3-1270 Intel Core i5-2500
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Core i 2000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 3.30 GHz

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  48
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2011

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No No

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 95 W

• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1155 LGA 1155
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy-Bridge Sandy Bridge S
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2011