That's not a problem in this case. All of the CPUs listed have the same Ivy Bridge cores, just different numbers of them running at different speeds. If there'

That's not a problem in this case. All of the CPUs listed have the same Ivy Bridge cores, just different numbers of them running at different speeds. If there's one thing Marco missed, it's that the larger L3 cache will help some single-threaded workloads run faster on the higher-end Xeons.