The 2 x Intel Xeon E5540 is a 16 thread processor configuration with 2.5GHz clock speed and 8MB L3 cache. The 2 x Intel Xeon E5540 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 11,903 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 12 test profiles the overall rank was approximately in the 41st percentile.
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2527.166 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 8 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 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 tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5054.33 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): 16 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 2 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 26 Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz Stepping: 5 CPU MHz: 1600.000 CPU max MHz: 2534.0000 CPU min MHz: 1600.0000 BogoMIPS: 5053.80 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 8192K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3,8-11 NUMA node1 CPU(s): 4-7,12-15