Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs Intel Xeon E3-1240L v3
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
May 2026
May 2014
Manufacturer
Intel
Intel
Type
Server
Server
Core Architecture
Clearwater Forest
Haswell-WS
Integrated Graphics
N/A
N/A
Generation
Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Xeon E3 (Haswell-WS)
Package
Manufacturing Process
3 nm
22 nm
Socket
Intel Socket 7529
Intel Socket 1150
Power Consumption
330 W
25 W
Peak Operating Temperature
98°C
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Foundry
Intel
Intel
I/O Process Size
10 nm
-
I/O Die Size
2x 241
-
Package
FC-LGA18N
FC-LGA12C
Transistor Count
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1.4 billions
Die Size
-
160 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
2 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.2 GHz
3 GHz
Total Core Count
144
4
Total Thread Count
144
8
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
20.0
L1 Cache
96 KB per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
4 MB per module
256 K per core
L3 Cache
432 MB shared
8 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
SMP
2
1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-8000
DDR3-1600
Max Memory Size
1.5 TB
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Max Memory Channels
12
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
768.0 GB/s
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ECC Memory Support
Yes
Yes
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
5
3
PCIe Lanes
96
16
📊 Benchmark
Geekbench 6
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895
Geekbench 6
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2,669