Intel unveils six-core Xeons ... again
We Czech out the official Dunnington unveiling
INTEL HAS OFFICIALLY taken the wraps off its six-core Xeon processors following its pseudo-launch on Monday.
The new range of Dunnington based 7400 series are aimed at the high-end server segment, and are built on 45nm Hi-k technology.
The 7400 series kicks off with seven CPUs with up to six cores, 16MB of L3 cache and are socket compatible with its predecessor the 7300 series. The new range operate in the 65W TDP compared to 50W for the older four-core CPUs, which although higher overall, is a lower power usage per core.
At the launch event here, Intel brought out several of its biggest partners including IBM, Microsoft and VMware to bang on about how much these new processors help virtualisation, with reams of benchmarks to show how it could increase performance by almost 50 per cent in some cases.
Our maths is a little rusty, but surely when you go from four cores to six, you should see at least a 50 per cent bump in performance, but regardless we're assured it's the proverbial dog's danglies.
Although Intel has a significant lead over its rival AMD in the desktop market, the server arena is a lot more competitive, thanks to strong competition from AMD and the other competitors. The company is hoping this release, as part of its tick-tock model, will help it gain even more of the high-end server market.
"This new processor series helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing a great opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications within a stable platform infrastructure," explained Tom Kilroy, Intel vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group.
Kilroy reckons that the extra cores, bigger shared caches and extra instructions make it perfect for virtualised servers.
For those concerned about the fate of the good ship Itanic, we're assured it's not heading for the Dunny yet, but we'll have more on that later when we've had a chance to discuss it with the Intel folks.
The Intel Xeon 7400 processor series is available today, with more than 50 system manufacturers already signed up to release products based on it. The new series will sell for between f$856 and $2,729 when bought in batches of 1,000. µ
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Is it 771?
and if it is will it work on skull trail? 2x 6 core procs would be cool.Math being rusty
Going from 4 cores to 6 cores does not always improve performance by 50% just because the 6 core model 50% more cores. The performance is purely applications based and being able to enough parallelism to distribute the work between all the available cores.Don't forget the fact that now there are 6 cores competing for memory/bus attention and cause significant contention and thereby hurt performance. In short, all that i want the author to be aware of is not to conclude the performance based off of number of cores.
Um...
Article quote: "The new range operate in the 65W TDP compared to 50W for the older four-core CPUs, which although higher overall, is a lower power usage per core."That would be a HIGHER power usage per core. On the other hand, you can get 24 cores on 2, 2-sockets mobos when using 6 core chips, instead of 3, 2-socket mobos when using 4 core chips, saving a bit of northbridge power consumption. Pity the performance doesn't scale, though.
its' Tranie Count....Smartie.
I Once sat down & calculated where Big Time IPTV/media become Ease. 1.9 Billion Transistors is in Good Seat. Tolerates complexity &Serves it Up.
STeWie Drashek
771
Will these babies work in my skull trail board?You muppet
How exactly do you think that going from 4 to 6 cores will give you at least a 50% performance boost?Do you know nothing about computer architecture?
The Inq is rapidly producing articles to lose all credibility it has with the articles on chrome included and all.
Go and study computers, then write your articles. IT press is sure getting worse.
I see
linear scaling with the amount of cores I deploy, but then, I run real applications, not games.best in ass solutions
dont tell me you didnt see that.competing cores - sounds too much like MPD
It is lower power usage per core, but nevermind, at least you weren't a t**t in your corrections.The Itanic.....maybe they can find a way to layer icebergs in it and vastly improve performance.