Intel Broadwell-EP Xeon E5 v4

[t0mt0m]

True. What about 1S ?

 

[ShintaiDK]

True. What about 1S ?

Already out:
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87722/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-v4-Family#@Server

 

[t0mt0m]

That's the E3 I guess. We await the E5

 

[ShintaiDK]

The E5 1000 series, if any, will come with the other E/EP models.

Q1 2016 it seems.

 

[DrMrLordX]

How does ORACLE\IBM fare in general these days?

Increasing\Decreasing the ammount of sold bigiron units?
(Not counting %, just raw volume)?

I don't know about their sales, but the hardware itself is doing better than I expected:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/9

Compare that with the comments regarding TDP here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/6

The E5-2699 v3 should have an effective TDP of 181W (It's 145W TDP, not 165W), while all the POWER8 chips should have an effective TDP of 270W. That's a ~49% increase in TDP for a 35% increase in performance, at least on Anandtech's SAP S&D benchmark. It looks like POWER8 is running behind Haswell-EP/EX in terms of performance/watt in that particular benchmark.