But unfortunately for us consumers, it's a four core Xeon E3-1290 which is clocked at 3.6GHz and its maximum Turbo Boost speed capable of 4GHz.
Aside from the increased clock speed, the CPU features the same specifications as the rest of the Xeon E3 chips, including 8MB of shared Level 3 cache, HyperThreading support, a 5GT/s DMI link and an integrated dual-channel controller which supports up to 32GB of DDR3-1333MHz memory. TDP is rated at 95W, the Intel HD integrated graphics unit is disabled.
Intel's Xeon E3 processor lineup includes 11 other models.
some pack four processing cores, feature support for Intel's Turbo Boost and HyperThreading technologies and 6MB or 8MB of L3 cache memory. The one exception is the low power Xeon E3-1220L which comes equipped with only two processing cores and 3MB of L3 cache, but has a TDP of just 20W.
