IT Computing
Today we're taking a look at Cavium's ThunderX, a highly integrated ARMv8 server SoC with 48 cores and lots of I/O. With the ThunderX, Cavium is looking to challenge Intel and their market-dominating Xeon lineup. Meanwhile Intel hasn't been standing still and has further improved the Xeon D line. To that end we've put Cavium's new server SoC to the test and compare it against the latest and greatest twelve and sixteen core Xeon Ds. And we also got a hold of the new Xeon E5-2640 v4 which holds the promise of being a SKU with an excellent balance between performance and power. Can the ThunderX compete with the best Intel SKUs? Let's find out!
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72 by Johan De Gelas on 9/17/2013
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8 by Jarred Walton on 8/28/2013
QNAP Partners with ZyXEL for Affordable 10G NAS Solutions
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15 by Ganesh T S on 8/15/2013
IBM Offers POWER Technology for Licensing, Forms OpenPOWER Consortium
The CPU wars are far from over, but the battlegrounds have shifted of late. Where once we looked primarily at the high-end processing options, today we tend to cover...
32 by Jarred Walton on 8/7/2013
The Impact of Disruptive Technologies on the Professional Storage Market
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60 by Johan De Gelas on 8/5/2013
OCZ Announces ZD-XL PCIe SQL Accelerator SSD Solution
About a year and a half ago OCZ announced the acquisition of Sanrad, an enterprise storage solutions company with experience in flash caching. Today we see some of the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013
June 2013 Top500 List Published: Xeon Phi Takes Top Spot
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16 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2013
Intel SSD DC S3500 Review (480GB): Part 1
We always knew that Intel would build a standard MLC version of its flagship S3700 enterprise SSD, and today we have that drive: the Intel SSD DC S3500.
54 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2013
AMD Opteron X1150 & X2150 "Kyoto": Kabini Heads to Servers
Last week AMD launched its Kabini APU for clients, a quad-core Jaguar based SoC with GCN graphics aimed at entry-level and mainstream ultraportable notebooks. In our review we found...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/29/2013
Inside AnandTech 2013: Power Consumption
Two of the previous three posts I've made about our upgraded server infrastructure have focused on performance. In the second post I talked about the performance (and reliability) benefits...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/18/2013
Inside AnandTech 2013: CPU Performance
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21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/15/2013
Calxeda's ARM server tested
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102 by Johan De Gelas on 3/12/2013
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57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013
Inside AnandTech 2013: The Hardware
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17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013
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QNAP's flagship NAS lineup, the TS-ECx79U-RP, checks all the boxes for a high performance enterprise NAS in a rackmount form factor for high end SMBs. These include quad GbE...
9 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2013
The new Opteron 6300: Finally Tested!
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55 by Johan De Gelas on 2/20/2013
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We haven't even had time to cover everything we saw at CES last week, but there are already more product announcements coming in. Fusion-io launched their new ioScale product...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 1/17/2013
OpenCompute servers and AMD Open 3.0
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10 by Johan De Gelas on 1/16/2013
Behind the Scenes of AnandTech's Server Tests [Video]
We've been quietly testing doing more video content on the site over the past year. I've done a few reviews over at our YouTube channel, and we also host...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/18/2012
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