Intel Xeon X5680 3.33GHz Socket 1366

By Tom's Hardware on July 26, 2010

I truly wish I had some older Xeon 5400-class hardware here to add to the mix. There’s a clear jump from the Xeon 5500s to the 5600s—and that’s just an evolutionary step up. Older Harpertown chips would have illustrated the gains...

By The Tech Report on July 23, 2010

We had hoped to expand our test suite to include a nifty new virtualization and web service benchmark, but it turns out that generating SPECjbb and SPECpower_ssj performance results for seven different CPU models across five different test systems...

By iXBT Labs on March 24, 2010

So, what can we say. The transition to the 32nm process technology let Intel painlessly increase the number of cores. The updated Xeon 5600 series is either better or at least not worse than the Xeon 5500. Even if you consider the "reduced" models...