Intel Xeon E5 Version 3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores

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• bsd228 - Friday, September 12, 2014 - link

  Now go price memory for M class Sun servers...even small upgrades are 5 figures and going 4 years back, a mid sized M4000 type server was going to cost you around 100k with moderate amounts of memory.
  
  And take up a large portion of the rack. Whereas you can stick two of these 18 core guys in a 1U server and have 10 of them (180 cores) for around the same sort of money.
  
  Big iron still has its place, but the economics will always be lousy.

• platinumjsi - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  ASRock are selling boards with DDR3 support, any idea how that works?
  
  http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.as...

• TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  Well... ASRock is generally famous "marrying" different gen hardware.
  But here, since this is about DDR RAM, governed by the CPU itself (because memory controller is inside the CPU), then my only guess is Xeon E5 v3 may have dual-mode memory controller (supporting either DDR4 or DDR3), similarly as Phenom II had back in 2009-2011, which supported either DDR2 or DDR3, depending on where you plugged it in.
  
  If so, then probably just the performance of E5 v3 with DDR3 may be somewhat inferior in comparison with DDR4.

• alpha754293 - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  No LS-DYNA runs? And yes, for HPC applications, you actually CAN have too many cores (because you can't keep the working cores pegged with work/something to do, so you end up with a lot of data migration between cores, which is bad, since moving data means that you're not doing any useful work ON the data).
  
  And how you decompose the domain (for both LS-DYNA and CFD makes a HUGE difference on total runtime performance).

• JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  No, I hope to get that one done in the more Windows/ESXi oriented review.

• Klimax - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  Nice review. Next stop: Windows Server. (And MS-SQL..)

• JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  Agreed. PCIe Flash and SQL server look like a nice combination to test this new Xeons.

• TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem-EP): up to 4 cores (45 nm)
  Xeon 5600 series (Westmere-EP): up to 6 cores (32 nm)
  Xeon E5 v1 (Sandy Bridge-EP): up to 8 cores (32 nm)
  Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge-EP): up to 12 cores (22 nm)
  Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell-EP): up to 18 cores (22 nm)
  
  So, in this progression, core count increases by 50% (1.5 times) almost each generation.
  
  So, what's gonna be next:
  
  Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell-EP): up to 27 cores (14 nm) ?
  
  Maybe four rows with 5 cores and one row with 7 cores (4 x 5 + 7 = 27) ?

• wallysb01 - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

  My money is on 24 cores.

• SuperVeloce - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

  What's the story with 2637v3? Only 4 cores and the same freqency and $1k price as 6core 2637v2? By far the most pointless cpu on the list.