Intel Launches Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 v3 Processor Families
The Xeon E7 v3 (Cont.)
The C112 and C114 scalable memory buffer boards and chips are offered in a couple of different configurations. There’s a basic configuration that supports up to 2 DIMMs per channel, while the advanced configuration ups that number to 3 DIMMs per channel. When paired to the advanced C114 scalable memory buffer, each socket in a Xeon E7 machine can address up to 1.5TB. In an 8-socket system, that equates to a maximum of 12TB.
Depending on the workload, the new Xeon E7-8800 / 4800 v3 processors are showing significant performance improvements according to data provided by Intel. Although it is clocked somewhat lower, the 18 core E7-8890 v3 outruns the 15 core E7-4890 v2 across the board in multi-threaded workloads. In single-threaded workloads, the equivalent low-clocked v3 parts will likely offer somewhat lower performance assuming the application doesn’t take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the v3 parts.
Performance-per-watt is also increased over the previous generation. In these tests (the data, again, was provided by Intel), the E7-8890 v3 performed roughly on-par with, or up to 33% better than the E7-4890 v2 in terms of performance-per-watt.