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Intel Launches Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 V3 Processor Families
MojoKid writes: Intel is taking the wraps off of its latest processors for enterprise server and pro workstation applications today, dubbed the Xeon E7-8800 / 4800 v3. Like its high-end desktop processors, the Xeon E7-8800 / 4800 v3 product families are based on the Haswell-EX CPU core. These new Xeons, however, offer a plethora of other enhancements and are packing significantly more cores than any current desktop processor. The highest-end Xeon E7-8800 series processors, for example, are 18 core chips. Previous generation Xeon E7 v2 processors were based on the Ivy Bridge-EX core, while the new E7 v3 parts are based on Haswell-EX, though both are manufactured on Intel's 22nm process node. Next generation Broadwell-EX based Xeons will make the move to 14nm. Xeon E7-8800 / 4800 v3 series processors have 32-lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity per socket, TSX is enabled in all SKUs, they offer support for both DDR3 and DDR4 memory (though, not simultaneously), and can address up to 6TB of memory in a 4-socket configuration or 12TB in an 8-socket setup. Intel has also goosed the chip's QPI interface speeds to 9.6GT/s.
Looks good for my EM simulation needs. Too bad the licensing to take advantage of all those cores is very expensive.
Intel has 2 parts just for you: E7-8891v3 and E7-8893v3, maximum clock frequency, fewer cores. Seriously, they are designed and marketed specifically for "Lower per-core software license fee costs Higher per-core performance".
Get the i7-4790k which runs up to 4.4ghz and is unlocked so you can overclock it to 4.8ghz or so.
It's probably hundreds of times faster than the shitty pentium 4 you mentioned to boot......
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