Saturday, January 16th 2016
Intel Readies a 5.1 GHz Xeon Chip Based on the "Broadwell" Architecture
Intel's first 5-gigahertz CPU will bear an unlikely brand - Xeon. The company's upcoming Xeon E5-2602 V4 quad-core chip based on the 14 nm "Broadwell-EP" silicon, is rumored to ship with a staggering 5.10 GHz clock speed out of the box. Getting there won't be easy for this socket LGA2011v3 chip. Despite being a quad-core chip, with just four out of ten cores on the "Broadwell-EP" silicon bring physically enabled, the chip's TDP is rated at 165W. Other features include 10 MB of L3 cache, and a quad-channel DDR4 memory interface.
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70 Comments on Intel Readies a 5.1 GHz Xeon Chip Based on the "Broadwell" Architecture
Maybe my next cpu.
Which makes me wonder. Has Intel also hit the roof of existing architectures? I mean, every time company starts to just pump out unusually high clocked CPU's, it means the architecture has hit it's limit. It was almost always like this in the past, be it AMD or Intel. Intel had the most dramatic issue with NetBurst and Pentium 4's. It was so far not even high clock helped. AMD is facing the same issue. Most of their current high end CPU's are clocked past 4GHz.
I think they both have to come up with something significantly different, something in terms of what Core architecture was to Pentium 4 and what AMD's Zen will most likely be to Bulldozer architecture.
Do we still have a huge amount of single threaded workloads that haven't seen increased performance due to mediocre IPC and clock speed improvements? Yep.
If I were running unbranching serial and or dependent computations... the faster the better. I would buy this chip.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/intel-forges-ahead-to-10nm-will-move-away-from-silicon-at-7nm/
If it's even true.
Intel's fastest stock clocked CPU is already aXeon, the X5698 (4.4GHz) - the same frequency that the Devil's Canyon 4790K hits at max turbo. From memory, they weren't sold retail, and were aimed at fast response systems (i.e. brokering firms where fast stock analysis and trading were required).
And when the optical technology in the CPU will be available to us .. the results of the first chip are excellent, I read :)
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Now that's funny from intel, I'd say for them that's the GHz race done and dusted my fx pushes 8 cores to that speed at a 95Tdp,, a design that's well mocked from 4 years ago.
Yes its Ipc would be better ,obviously