Intel Xeon E5-2687W.. The way 8 Cores was meant to be done

[Don Karnage]

Anyone else anxiously awaiting this processor? 8 cores, 16HT's, 20 megs of L3, 1800 dollar price is kinda steep but i don't even care. Anyone thinking about buying it when it gets released in Q1? With it's 31X multi and X79's 1.67 OC Bclk ratio it should be able to do 5.1Ghz with the right cooling.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon E5-2687W.html

 

[Gigantopithecus]

What will you be doing with this CPU when you get one?

 

[Don Karnage]

What will you be doing with this CPU when you get one?

Benchmarking

 

[lol123]

I love it already.

What kind of cooling are you planning to get for it?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Only 3.1 GHz stock with no Turbo Boost? Nope, not using it to make a $4,000 gaming PC

(Even though the 150 watt TDP would keep me almost as warm as with a bulldozer system.)


.... but seriously, this should be a good CPU for servers and workstations doing highly-threaded work.

 

[IntelUser2000]

Only 3.1 GHz stock with no Turbo Boost? Nope, not using it to make a $4,000 gaming PC

It has 3.4GHz max Turbo Mode clock.

Probably goes like this:

3.1GHz Base
3.2GHz 6-8 cores
3.3GHz 2-4 cores
3.4GHz 1 core

 

[BD231]

I'd rather buy a cheap car and drive it into a wall ...., but I'm glad to see Intel didn't cheap out on design like AMD has. You won't be getting 5ghz with an 8 core CPU though buddy. 4 maybe, but that's a lot of heat you're going to have to keep under control.

Really hope Intel PR expose's AMD's BullCrapper via simple graph for the people who don't know any better, this thing is absolutely going to blow bulldozer out of the water and people need to know.

 

[pm]

You could probably take a couple of world records on HWBot and 3DMark for a least a little while with one or two of these, a good overclocking motherboard, quad SLI/XFire high end video cards and some very good cooling. It's an expensive hobby and maybe not everybody's idea of fun, but I know at least a couple of people who really love seeing their names at the top of the world-record holder lists.

 

[AdamK47]

150 Watts. Is that all?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Yeah, pretty impressive, given the frequency. Although if you took 2x 2600K chips, that's (95W - 15W IGP)*2 = 160W. Then add more cache + more memory controller logic, so maybe 170W. Then clock it down a bit...yeah, I guess 150W is reasonable actually.

 

[gevorg]

If 2687W is not unlocked, then 2500K/2600K at near 5Ghz overclocks should crush it at single-threaded to four-threaded applications/games. :biggrin:

 

[garagisti]

Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.

 

[Don Karnage]

If 2687W is not unlocked, then 2500K/2600K at near 5Ghz overclocks should crush it at single-threaded to four-threaded applications/games. :biggrin:

X79 has Bclk overclocking

 

[AtenRa]

Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.

Depends on the apps, but at the same price AMD's Interlagos has more Integer cores and that translates to higher core density per rack space.

 

[Don Karnage]

Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.

Why would you even waste your money on Amd? If an 8 core bd can't even beat a 2600K then how would a 16 core one beat this processor?