Intel Xeon E3-1220 (Sandy Bridge) Benchmarked

[pjkenned]

Hey Anandtech,

Just in the event someone is wondering about the new Sandy Bridge Xeons I spent this weekend doing benchmarks of the Xeon E3-1220 (4C/4T, 80w, no onboard GPU, 8MB L3).

Will be posting results of some of the HT model(s) later this week. Power consumption looks promising but is a bit hard to discern at the moment due to the dearth of appropriate C200 series motherboards currently available. Let me know if there are any other benchmarks that people would like to see.

Cheers,
Patrick

 

[Skurge]

Will you only be benching E3s?

 

[AkumaX]

just graysky's x264 HD benchmark

 

[aigomorla]

not to rain on your parade... the cpu is a rare cpu... however.

1. No IGP. meaning,, eh??? most workstations lack video cards, or have very small dedicated ones.. so why is a workstation cpu missing the IGP?

2. Completely locked... the cpu screams locked, meaning no flexibility at all with overclocking. Which makes sense due to the workstation aspect to it.

3. The cost over a 2500... makes no sense to me.. the 2500 is a much more solid cpu @ the price point over this Xeon.

As i said, its a nice little cpu, however those of you guys who are going to look deeper into it, go with the consumer brand on 1155.

Trust me, 1155 is not worth it on enterprise / workstation setups, unless were talking laptop.

 

[pjkenned]

Will you only be benching E3s?

Already have the older-gen X3440 and X3460 up, as well as the i5-2500k and i7-2600k and a few older CPUs (you can see them in the Handbrake table). The next 2-3 weeks will be looking at the new E5606's in single/ dual configurations and probably the E3-1230 as well as the Zecate platform from a home/SMB server perspective.

AkumaX: I looked into graysky's x264 HD benchmark, but am using Handbrake 0.9.5 instead as it is a bit more of a real-world application versus a pure benchmark. Open to a counterpoint though.

aigomorla: ECC support is the #1 reason to use this CPU for a server/ workstation. In the UP market, Lynnfield has been very popular. ECC is very important for a lot of markets, although agreed this is not really a gaming CPU.

 

[blckgrffn]

Thanks for the info, I'll be watching this thread...

 

[aigomorla]

aigomorla: ECC support is the #1 reason to use this CPU for a server/ workstation. In the UP market, Lynnfield has been very popular. ECC is very important for a lot of markets, although agreed this is not really a gaming CPU.

DOE!

Completely forgot...

Your right if u needed ECC ram, its the only solution to SB.

 

[pjkenned]

DOE!

Completely forgot...

Your right if u needed ECC ram, its the only solution to SB.

Yes, and most UP server purchasers will also trade a few dollars (~$30-40 difference) for a 80w TDP part (the E3-1220 reviewed) with 8MB L3 and ECC support versus the 95TDP/ 95w TDP desktop part (the i5-2400).

Realistically, a K series desktop part without the GPU would be a fairly interesting chip.

 

[pjkenned]

Update: Xeon E3-1230 benchmarks are up. Basically for applications that can take advantage of HT, it is a faster CPU for not much more.