Thursday, November 17th 2016
Intel Announces the Xeon E5-2699A at SC 2016
At the SC16 (Super Computing 2016) conference, Intel introduced its new Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4, which is a newer, faster version of the existing Broadwell E5-2699 v4. The "newer, faster" bit basically amounts to an increased base (from 2.2GHz to 2.4GHz) and boost clock (from 3.4GHz to 3.6GHz). Like its predecessor, the Xeon E5-2699A features 22 cores and 55MB of L3 cache, and the company cited vague improvements to the now-mature 14nm process that which amount to a 4.8% gain in LINPACK performance - which can surely be attributed almost exclusively to its clockspeed increase (not unlike the expected performance differential between Intel's current Skylake and upcoming Kaby Lake architectures). The E5-2699A v4 carries an MSRP of $4,938, which marks an eye-watering 20% increase over the $4,115 of its 200-MHz slower predecessor.
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[SARCASM INTENSIFIES]
It should be 100% faster than mine.
Data metrics on you and I = $$$$
Doesn't matter if its Amazon, Costco, Microsoft, Cisco, Ubuntu, Steam, EA, they'll gladly spend for infrastructure that is powerful enough to handle and process millions of data metrics, store them and be able to maintain databases, which are resource hogs. Not that I care much for this part of the industry, it is there and is only growing more and more and the more data that vendors can acquire and manipulate for reports and storage sooner, the more money they can make faster. Big data = big $$$.
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Me and a couple members researched and it seems that CPU is unlocked according to a few sources and screenies etc but...hate the mystery it appears Intel seems to intentionally keep around their cpus multipliers. I believe when you look on their own spec sheets it doesn't even say unless I missed it on any of their xeons what multiplier range or if it's locked or not, they simply don't tell you.