Comparison of Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E5	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	10	6
Frequency (GHz)	2.5	2.1
CPU Threads	20	12
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.3	2.6
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.3
Turbo (10 Cores) (GHz)	2.9	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR3-1600
PCIe lanes	40	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2013
Technology (Nm)	22	22
Socket	LGA 2011	LGA 2011
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	25	15
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EP	Ivy Bridge EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	115	80
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	15,021	8,600
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	551	494
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5,876	3,219
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	113	98
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,008	710
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.38	1.18
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	12.93	7.6
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,670	2,350
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	48,560	26,200