Intel Xeon E5 Version 3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores
by Johan De Gelas on September 8, 2014 12:30 PM ESTBenchmark Configuration and Methodology
This review - due to time constraints and a failing RAID controller inside our iSCSI storage - concentrates mostly on the performance and performance/watt of server applications running on top of Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. To make things more interesting, we tested 4 different SKUs and included the previous generation Xeon E5-2697v2 (high end Ivy Bridge EP), Xeon E5-2680v2 (mid range Ivy Bridge EP) and E5-2690 (high end Sandy Bridge EP). All test have been done with the help of Dieter and Wannes of the Sizing Servers Lab.
We include the Opteron "Piledriver" 6376 server (configuration here) only for nostalgia and informational purposes. It is clear that AMD does not actively competes in the high end and midrange server CPU market anno 2014.
Intel's Xeon E5 Server – "Wildcat Pass" (2U Chassis)
| CPU |
Two Intel Xeon processor E5-2699 v3 (2.3GHz, 18c, 45MB L3, 145W) |
| RAM | 128GB (8x16GB) Samsung M393A2G40DB0 (RDIMM) 256GB (8x32GB) Samsung M386A4G40DM0 (LRDIMM) |
| Internal Disks | 2x Intel MLC SSD710 200GB |
| Motherboard | Intel Server Board Wilcat pass |
| Chipset | Intel Wellsburg B0 |
| BIOS version | Beta BIOS dating August the 9th, 2014 |
| PSU | Delta Electronics 750W DPS-750XB A (80+ Platinum) |
The 32 GB LRDIMMs were added to the review thanks to the help of IDT and Samsung Semiconductor.
The picture above gives you a look inside the Xeon E5-2600v3 based server.
Supermicro 6027R-73DARF (2U Chassis)
| CPU | Two Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2 (2.7GHz, 12c, 30MB L3, 130W) Two Intel Xeon processor E5-2680 v2 (2.8GHz, 10c, 25MB L3, 115W) Two Intel Xeon processor E5-2690 (2.9GHz, 8c, 20MB L3, 135W) |
| RAM | 128GB (8x16GB) Samsung M393A2G40DB0 |
| Internal Disks | 2x Intel MLC SSD710 200GB |
| Motherboard | Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F |
| Chipset | Intel C602J |
| BIOS version | R 3.0a (December the 6th, 2013) |
| PSU | Supermicro 740W PWS-741P-1R (80+ Platinum) |
All C-states are enabled in both the BIOS.
Other Notes
Both servers are fed by a standard European 230V (16 Amps max.) powerline. The room temperature is monitored and kept at 23°C by our Airwell CRACs. We use the Racktivity ES1008 Energy Switch PDU to measure power consumption. Using a PDU for accurate power measurements might seem pretty insane, but this is not your average PDU. Measurement circuits of most PDUs assume that the incoming AC is a perfect sine wave, but it never is. However, the Rackitivity PDU measures true RMS current and voltage at a very high sample rate: up to 20,000 measurements per second for the complete PDU.
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SuperVeloce - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
Oh, nevermind... I unknowingly caught an error.JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
thx! Fixed. Sorry for the late reaction, jetlagged and trying to get to the hectic pace of IDF :-)hescominsoon - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
As long as AMD continues it's idiotic two integer units sharing an fpu design they will be an afterthought in the cpu department.nils_ - Sunday, September 14, 2014 - link
Serious competition for Intel will not come from AMD any time soon, but possibly IBM with the POWER8, Tyan even came out with a single socket board for that CPU so it might make it's way into the same market soon.ScarletEagle - Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - link
Any feel for the relative HPC performance of the E5-2680v3 with respect to the E5-2650Lv3? I am looking at purchasing a PowerEdge 730 with two of these and the 2133MHz RAM. My guess is that the higher base clock speed should make somewhat of an improvement?