The 2 x Intel Xeon E5520 is a 16 thread processor configuration with 2.3GHz clock speed and 8MB L3 cache. The 2 x Intel Xeon E5520 is a "Nehalem" processor. Some of the prominent capabilities of the processor include SSE 4.2 + Intel VT-x. This processor has been found on OpenBenchmarking.org since Q1'2011 and found in approximately 2,369 results on OpenBenchmarking.org.
Below is a generalized look at the performance across various test profiles and where relevant the different test profile options exposed for a high-level look at the performance compared to all available public test results on OpenBenchmarking.org. Of the 10 test profiles the overall rank was approximately in the 24th percentile.
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x11 cpu MHz : 2261.091 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 16 initial apicid : 16 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 4522.18 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 26 Stepping: 5 CPU MHz: 2261.091 BogoMIPS: 4521.86 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 8192K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7