The Intel Xeon E5 v4 Review: Testing Broadwell-EP With Demanding Server Workloads
by Johan De Gelas on March 31, 2016 12:30 PM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
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- Enterprise
- Enterprise CPUs
- Broadwell
Xeon E5 v4 SKUs and Pricing
As of press time we don't have precise Xeon E5 v4 pricing. But overall prices seem to be about 1-2% higher than the comparable Xeon E5 v3..
| Intel Xeon E5 v4 SKUs | ||||||
| Cores/Threads | TDP | Base Clockspeed | Price | |||
| E5-2699 v4 | 22/44 | 145W | 2.2GHz | $4115 | ||
| E5-2698 v4 | 20/40 | 135W | 2.2GHz | $3228 | ||
| E5-2697A v4 | 16/32 | 145W | 2.6GHz | $2891 | ||
| E5-2697 v4 | 18/36 | 145W | 2.3GHz | $2702 | ||
| E5-2695 v4 | 18/36 | 120W | 2.1GHz | $2424 | ||
| E5-2690 v4 | 14/28 | 135W | 2.6GHz | $2090 | ||
| E5-2687W v4 | 12/24 | 160W | 3.0GHz | $2141 | ||
| E5-2683 v4 | 16/32 | 120W | 2.1GHz | $1846 | ||
| E5-2680 v4 | 14/28 | 120W | 2.4GHz | $1745 | ||
| E5-2667 v4 | 8/16 | 135W | 3.2GHz | $2057 | ||
| E5-2660 v4 | 14/28 | 105W | 2.0GHz | $1445 | ||
| E5-2650L v4 | 14/28 | 65W | 1.7GHz | $1329 | ||
| E5-2650 v4 | 12/24 | 105W | 2.2GHz | $1166 | ||
| E5-2643 v4 | 6/12 | 135W | 3.4GHz | $1552 | ||
| E5-2640 v4 | 10/20 | 90W | 2.4GHz | $939 | ||
| E5-2637 v4 | 4/8 | 135W | 3.5GHz | $996 | ||
| E5-2630 v4 | 10/20 | 85W | 2.2GHz | $667 | ||
| E5-2630L v4 | 10/20 | 55W | 1.8GHz | $612 | ||
| E5-2623 v4 | 4/8 | 85W | 2.6GHz | $444 | ||
| E5-2620 v4 | 8/16 | 85W | 2.1GHz | $417 | ||
| E5-2609 v4 | 8/8 | 85W | 1.7GHz | $306 | ||
| E5-2603 v4 | 6/6 | 85W | 1.7GHz | $213 | ||
Meanwhile Intel's own performance estimations are not exactly exhilarating. Their estimates are based upon the almost perfectly scaling SPECrate benchmarks, and even these "perfect world" gains are simply modest, almost uninspiring in fact. We have said it before: this market desperately needs some competition if we want a new generation to bring more exciting improvements in performance-per-dollar metrics..
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petar_b - Saturday, August 27, 2016 - link
Thanks Phil_Oracle, Brutalizer and Anand for this discussion. I have learned a lot from reading different opinions. I am working with IBM and Oracle software products, and from my small experience, Xeons are pathetic when compared to POWER or SPARC. To do same operation at home Xeon it takes 10x more time than what it takes the corporate server to do. I have double memory than corporate server and yet no help from it.someonesomewherelse - Thursday, September 1, 2016 - link
Btw how locked down are these Xeons and their motherboards in regards to overclocking? Assuming you could provide enough power and cooling could you reach a decent overclock? Obviously nobody is going to do that for mission crittical servers/workstations, but if I had too much money could I get a quad or octa core system with as much cores possible and at least try to overclock them?