What AES-NI capable Intel CPU is the E6600 comparable to?

[newconroer]

I am looking to find out where the old Core 2 Duo E6600 performance begins to match CPUs in the range of AES-NI capable Intel chips

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?AESTech=true

In short, I want to replace the E6600 with something AES-NI capable for using in a server environment.

 

[Caring1]

Are you planning on changing the motherboard too, there aren't any socket 775 CPU's capable of AES.

 

[tabascosauz]

I can't find anything on that list that is close to the E6600. What's the deal with the performance matching the E6600? Nearly all of those CPUs are Haswell and Broadwell and are light-years ahead in IPC, and half of them are mobile CPUs. I'm guessing that the new Atoms ( something Trail) would be close but they'd be a CPU + mobo combo, if they're even desktop CPUs at all.

For servers, a few would come to mind. I'm not sure if Avoton supports AES-NI (probably not) but it's popular for parallelized workloads. A lot of i3s have more in common with Xeon E3 than i5s and i7s since they are usually advertised as compatible with ECC memory and the CPU support list for chipsets such as C206 and C226 have i3s as the low-end options. The E3s are like, a step above the i3s but as of v4 (Broadwell) they will be different, as they will be Crystalwell parts.

 

[Aquinus]

I suspect any CPU on 1150 will be faster than a E6600. This my no means is to rail on the E6600, I used to have one. It's just very dated technology at this point. There may even be Atoms at this point that can out-perform it. I think the i3 is the cheapest CPU on 1150 that has AES-NI instructions.

 

[Toothless]

I suspect any CPU on 1150 will be faster than a E6600. This my no means is to rail on the E6600, I used to have one. It's just very dated technology at this point. There may even be Atoms at this point that can out-perform it. I think the i3 is the cheapest CPU on 1150 that has AES-NI instructions.

Lemme pit my N270 against a E6600 and we'll see who wins the slow race!

 

[Nordic]

This is the closest benchmark I can find. Haswell i3 4330 vs C2D 6750, and the haswell is more than 2x faster in 2/3 tests. A faster i5 or i7 would probably improve on that greatly.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/60?vs=1192

 

[johnspack]

i7 970. In it's gen, lowest cpu to support AES.

 

[newconroer]

Are you planning on changing the motherboard too, there aren't any socket 775 CPU's capable of AES.

Yes I will have to, which begs the question whether the 'gains' from using AES-NI will be worth the cost to upgrade what would be the CPU, Motherboard and RAM.

I can't find anything on that list that is close to the E6600. What's the deal with the performance matching the E6600? Nearly all of those CPUs are Haswell and Broadwell and are light-years ahead in IPC, and half of them are mobile CPUs. I'm guessing that the new Atoms ( something Trail) would be close but they'd be a CPU + mobo combo, if they're even desktop CPUs at all.
For servers, a few would come to mind. I'm not sure if Avoton supports AES-NI (probably not) but it's popular for parallelized workloads. A lot of i3s have more in common with Xeon E3 than i5s and i7s since they are usually advertised as compatible with ECC memory and the CPU support list for chipsets such as C206 and C226 have i3s as the low-end options. The E3s are like, a step above the i3s but as of v4 (Broadwell) they will be different, as they will be Crystalwell parts.

Definitely worth looking at.

I suspect any CPU on 1150 will be faster than a E6600. This my no means is to rail on the E6600, I used to have one. It's just very dated technology at this point. There may even be Atoms at this point that can out-perform it. I think the i3 is the cheapest CPU on 1150 that has AES-NI instructions.

There is a N11xx series Atom which has NI support.

Lemme pit my N270 against a E6600 and we'll see who wins the slow race!

You might be surprised.