Xeon E3-1280 Fastest (Stock) Sandy Bridge

[pjkenned]

Hey all,

Benchmarked the Intel Xeon E3-1280 which is a 95w TDP part running at 3.5GHz base with no active integrated GPU.

See Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1280 benchmarks.

Again, not a gaming CPU since the i7-2600K is half the price and has an unlocked multiplier, but the Xeon E3 series supports ECC memory. If you get bored and don't want to look at the tables, it is slightly faster than the i7-2600K and significantly faster than the E3-1220 and E3-1230.

Also, the E3-1280 has not been released yet. I got my sample at retail due to a distributor mix-up.

Cheers,
Patrick

 

[AdamK47]

Fell off a truck?

 

[Edrick]

Fell off a truck?

Why do I never come across any of these trucks?

 

[tweakboy]

So what is this Xeon 8 core with HT thats 16 logical cores. Am I right ?

I dont get it whats the big difference between CPU desktop chips and Xeon server chips.

They already have a opteron at 12 core and if that has HT then that should blow away sandy until Ivy arrives I guess..

 

[pjkenned]

So what is this Xeon 8 core with HT thats 16 logical cores. Am I right ?

I dont get it whats the big difference between CPU desktop chips and Xeon server chips.

They already have a opteron at 12 core and if that has HT then that should blow away sandy until Ivy arrives I guess..

For the lower-end UP servers, ECC support (including registered memory support) is one of the biggest differences. Also the Xeon E3-1230, for example is an 80w TDP part with no active integrated GPU.

Lots of cores is still AMD's forte, especially at low power consumption/ per core.

I will note however, that the E3-1280 is actually faster in most ways than the dual Xeon E5606 setup that I finished benchmarking this weekend, and that is eight physical cores. So core counts are not the only performance determinant.

But Bulldozer and Ivy are going to be interesting!