Hello guys. Just signed in as Im planing on taking a step to a xeon and cant find a answer for my question.So im going to make a small micro atx workstation (4x32gb ram) and a e5 2690v4.Its going to be used for intense photogrametry rendering and game dev(unreal engine).I see that the base clock is kind of low 2.6ghz and my question is, does this thing turbo boost always.For example in unreal engine (or a game)it will most probably use 2-4 cores for the testing/game purposes.Can i expect to see this to turboboost to 3ghz and stay there during work?
The reason im asking is because most xeons i see on youtube when playing a game(for example) i see them stay at their base clocks.(im not sure if turbo boost is activated in bios,but by deffault i think it shoud be)
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You may not see full all-core turbo unless your cores are loaded heavily enough. If you find this is a problem for some applications, particularly games, you can use something like system explorer to set and retain affinity and priority settings so you are more likely to turbo when running them.
Also, is that E5-2690 v4 an ES proc? If it is, make sure it's a QS or QA proc as early steppings could be buggy. Got burned a while back with some "E5-2667 v3" procs that were cut-down 14-cores with the 35MB cache, these procs would boost across all cores and then for no reason at all just down-clock to 12x multiplier while under full load. Essentially, completely useless.
Luckily I was able to get a full refund on them.
Most games don't seem to be properly optimized for multiple threads, and even the ones that are multi-threaded do not seem to be able to utilize the threads fully. Exception to this is Battlefield 1, that game utilized 8 threads pretty effectively and utilizes GPU very well. The previous couple BF games may also be the same.
Fallout 4 seems to utilize about 8 threads max, but the game is poorly optimized so it runs like shit whether you are getting full turbo or not. I restrict it to 8 threads and it seems to do well enough on my current E5-2690-0 build.