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Benchmarks for the Intel Xeon E5540 can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Description:
Class: Server
Socket: LGA1366
Clockspeed: 2.5 GHz
Turbo Speed: 2.8 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 80 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz, Intel Xeon CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2009
CPUmark/$Price: 31.55
Overall Rank:
2862nd fastest in multithreading out of 5276 CPUs
3095th fastest in single threading out of 5276 CPUs
955th fastest in out of 1133 Server CPUs
Last Price Change: $88.93 USD (2023-05-27)
Integer Math | 14,945 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 6,349 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 20 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 7,826 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 525.0 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 62,158 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 338 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 1,823 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 1,200 MOps/Sec |
Not Enough Data from Current Version of PerformanceTest to Create Distribution Graph.
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX | 40,155 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 128 Core 3000 MHz | 39,163 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 80 Core 3000 MHz | 35,253 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7745 | 31,935 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 64 Core 0 MHz | 28,044 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 | 25,668 | |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz | 17,408 | |
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz | 14,295 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 10,393 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 6,972 | |
Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz | 2,805 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz | 82.13 | |
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz | 73.90 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7745 | 60.18 | |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX | 36.51 | |
Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz | 31.55 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 30.04 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 7.29 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 80 Core 3000 MHz | NA | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 128 Core 3000 MHz | NA | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 64 Core 0 MHz | NA | |
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7745 | 3,765 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 | 3,665 | |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX | 2,679 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 2,122 | |
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz | 2,002 | |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz | 1,936 | |
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz | 1,790 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 128 Core 3000 MHz | 1,329 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 80 Core 3000 MHz | 1,328 | |
Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz | 1,200 | |
ARM Neoverse-N1 64 Core 0 MHz | 1,092 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2574309 - Apr 22 2025 | 2938 | |
BL2405308 - Feb 11 2025 [Excluded] | 2195 | |
BL2405238 - Feb 11 2025 [Excluded] | 2195 | |
BL2008557 - Jan 28 2024 | 2870 | |
BL1938429 - Nov 03 2023 | 2877 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz | 2,805 | |
Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,317 (+18.2%) | |
Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,036 (+8.2%) | |
Intel Xeon X5560 @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,210 (+14.4%) | |
Intel Xeon X3470 @ 2.93GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,307 (+17.9%) | |
Intel Xeon X3460 @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 2,972 (+5.9%) | |
Intel Xeon X5482 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 2,755 (-1.8%) | |
Intel Xeon W3565 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,384 (+20.6%) | |
Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,245 (+15.7%) | |
AMD Opteron 4226 vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,400 (+21.2%) | |
Intel Xeon L5630 @ 2.13GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 3,048 (+8.6%) | |
Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.67GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 2,930 (+4.4%) | |
Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.67GHz vs Intel Xeon E5540 | 2,871 (+2.3%) |