Product Description
The Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 was a server/workstation processor with 8 cores, launched in September 2014, at an MSRP of $939. It is part of the Xeon E5 lineup, using the Haswell-EP architecture with Socket 2011-3. Thanks to Intel Hyper-Threading the core-count is effectively doubled, to 16 threads. To further increase overall system performance, up to two Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPUs can work together in a multi-processor (SMP) configuration. Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 20 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.6 GHz by default, but can boost up to 3.4 GHz, depending on the workload. Intel is making the Xeon E5-2640 v3 on a 22 nm production node using 2,600 million transistors. The multiplier is locked on Xeon E5-2640 v3, which limits its overclocking potential.