8 core processor upgrade series intel xeon eighteen core number of processing cores 8 number of threads 16 clock frequency 32 ghz turbo boost max turbo frequency 36 ghz processor code name broadwell tdp 135 watt stepping revision r0 stepping l2 cache 2 048 kb l3 cache 25 kb manufacturing process 14 nm suitable for hewlett packard system features mmx sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse41 sse42 ssse3 advanced vector extensions avx advanced vector exten