Product Collection Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family

Code Name Products formerly Sandy Bridge EP

Processor Number E5-2640

Lithography 32 nm

Recommended Customer Price $885.00 - $889.00

CPU Specifications

Total Cores 6

Total Threads 12

Max Turbo Frequency 3.00 GHz

Processor Base Frequency 2.50 GHz

Cache 15 MB Intel® Smart Cache

Bus Speed 7.2 GT/s

# of QPI Links 2

TDP 95 W

Supplemental Information

Marketing StatusDiscontinued

Launch Date Q1'12

Expected Discontinuance Q2'15

Servicing Status End of Servicing Lifetime

End of Servicing Updates Date Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Embedded Options Available No

Memory Specifications

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 384 GB

Memory Types DDR3 800/1066/1333

Max # of Memory Channels 4

Max Memory Bandwidth 42.6 GB/s

ECC Memory Supported ‡ Yes

Expansion Options

Scalability2S Only

PCI Express Revision 3.0

Max # of PCI Express Lanes 40

Package Specifications

Sockets Supported FCLGA2011

Max CPU Configuration2

TCASE 73 °C

Package Size52.5mm x 45.0mm

Advanced Technologies

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡ 1.0

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡ Yes

Intel® 64 ‡ Yes

Instruction Set 64-bit

Instruction Set Extensions Intel® AVX

Idle States Yes

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology Yes

Intel® Demand Based Switching Yes

Thermal Monitoring Technologies Yes

Intel® Flex Memory Access No

Intel® Identity Protection Technology ‡ No

Security & Reliability

Intel vPro® Eligibility ‡ Intel vPro® Platform

Intel® AES New Instructions Yes

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology ‡ Yes

Execute Disable Bit ‡ Yes

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡ Yes

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡ Yes

Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡ Yes