Intel Xeon E5420: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Xeon E5420 is a 4-core and 4-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 2500 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 373
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 1234
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 1920
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 1065
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 1643
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5420
- Frequency
- 2500 MHz
- Cores
- 4
- Threads
- 4
- TDP
- 80 W
- Codename
- Harpertown
- Package
- Socket 771 LGA

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 372
- Multi-Core Score
- 2131
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for Windows x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Evaluation (64-bit)
- Model
- Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950
- Motherboard
- Dell Inc. 0CX396
- Power Plan
- Balanced
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Xeon E5420
- Topology
- 2 Processors, 8 Cores
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
- Base Frequency
- 2.50 GHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 2493 MHz
- Package
- Socket 771 LGA
- Codename
- Harpertown
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 4
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 4
- L2 Cache
- 6.00 MB x 2
Memory Information
- Size
- 8.00 GB
- Frequency
- 332 MHz
- Type
- DDR2 FB SDRAM
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 372 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 50 |
| Integer Score | 397 |
| Floating Point Score | 373 |
| AES-XTS | 50 87.6 MB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 586 2.97 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 464 21.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 356 1.00 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 358 419.9 KElements/sec |
| SQLite | 423 132.5 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 392 21.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 340 108.2 KB/sec |
| Clang | 418 3.26 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 302 3.50 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 369 462.3 Kpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 405 2511.6 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 352 19.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 420 3.24 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 429 10.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 553 27.1 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 454 6.19 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 438 352.0 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 244 2.18 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 473 15.1 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 162 6.25 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 2131 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 397 |
| Integer Score | 2240 |
| Floating Point Score | 2183 |
| AES-XTS | 397 693.1 MB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 3712 18.8 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 3292 155.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 839 2.37 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 2779 3.26 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 3294 1.03 Mrows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 2110 114.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 1381 439.9 KB/sec |
| Clang | 3212 25.0 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 1617 18.7 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 2024 2.53 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 3215 19919.7 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 2414 132.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 3337 25.7 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2021 49.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 2817 138.2 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 2827 38.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 3398 2.73 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 1579 14.1 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 1711 54.7 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 691 26.7 images/sec |