Intel Haswell-E (Xeon & Ex) upcoming Broadwell & Skylake.
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With Intel rapidly shifting forward their current lineage of 9 series micro-processor (both the haswell refresh & upcoming 14nm aka Broadwell) and motherboards H97/Z97 to online retailers. For a small period of time since maybe February or March there has been a small discussion regarding the upcoming revision of Intel’s highest end platform 2011-3.
Having remembered when the Engineering sample of the next revision 2011-3 I decided to research some more and found out that the leaked workstation/server grade Haswell-E CPU had a tremendous 14 core count enabled (so 14c/24hc) of course it being part of the Xeon E5 family had validation to run in any dual socket cpu (only rev.3 due to the change in revision 0 - 3), DDR4 supporting 2133mhz standard, higher levels of cache with the upcoming Wellsburg chipset C610.
To be more accurate here is a quote from wccftech
Intel Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 V3 Sample Gets Sold on Ebay for $650
These new processors will have the AVX 2.0 instruction set and integrated voltage regulator. Ofcourse since this is the LGA 2011-3 or Revision 3 or R3 socket, the CUPs can support upto 14 cores and both DDR and DDR4 Memory. The QPI Bandwidth is now 9.6 GT/s. The Sample listed runs at a clock speed of 2.5Ghz, which is about right for a processor designed for the server space. The FPO Number is state to be C313 which would mean it was mentioned sometime at the end of March.
Now the chip just says QDD3 and we know this is the Xeon E5-2600 v3 family because the processor can scale up to two sockets. This particular processor or the QDD3 has 12 CPU cores and incorporates 30MB Level 3 Cache (L3 ). It supports hyperthreading so you can expect 24 threads right here. The maximum boost frequency is 3 Ghz and the base clock sis 2.5 Gh as mentioned before. DDR4 memory is supported upto 2133 Mhz, after which the memory controller starts to over clock itself. Although the seller knows what he is doing, it would be interesting to see where the founder finds himself an R3 motherboard.
Here is a link to it being enlisted on Ebay : http://www.ebay.com/itm/201079451724
To be clear this is the Haswell-EP not EX however it does broaden the gap to understanding that Intel will be pushing the core count for enthusiasts, extreme over-clockers & highly multi-threaded applications. Aside from the latest high-end Ivy-Bridge Xeon E5 2696 v2 which is a 12 core, I've rechecked with other sites & articles regarding the leaked E5 2600 v.3 and boy it’s tough to put my finger on but from but there has been a rumoured 16 and 18 core edition floating around.
Computex 2014: Intel Haswell CPU ready to unveil up to 18 EX-Core
Confirming what has been said and shown at the last IDF Shenzhen, Intel has further reiterated that the Desktop PC segment is not in decline, and it seems that the next Computex Taipei which will be held June we will have further evidence.
If these days the giant processors has already unveiled the CPU Haswell-Refresh, in addition to the upcoming Devil's Canyon , the attention of the fans are now directed to-end solutions extreme Haswell-E, as well as the next chip Broadwell (but will come probably only at year end).
http://www.hdblog.it/image_new.php?id=348670&width=660&height=350
To put further "irons in the fire", from the new rumors coming out of some of the innovations that will be on display at the most important trade fair of the year in IT, just the Computex 2014.
Spotlight there will be the platform Haswell end Extreme, both as regards the desktop segment (Core i7 Haswell-E) than for what Server (Xeon Haswell-EP). Surely then we will see the first demo with DDR4 and the new X99 chipset with all the new technologies proposed for this platform.
Intel unveils solutions that will show-EP Xeon 22nm architecture with up to 18 core , 45 MB Cache, DDR4, PCI-E 3.0 to 40 lines and support Hyper Threading (so a single processor to 36 threads). In the desktop instead we will probably see the first Intel CPU Core consumer to 8(always with HT). So we can do is wait for the event which will start early June.
http://hardware.hdblog.it/2014/05/14/Computex-2014-Intel-Haswell-E-16-Core/
Intel had a very successful Ivy Bridge Xeon-EP (officially known as Xeon E5-2600 v2) rollout this past quarter. Both the 8-core E5-2687Wv2 (3.4 GHz before Turbo, mind you), the main high end 10-core 3 GHz E5-2690v2, and the 12-core 2.7 GHz E5-2697v2, supposedly a cut-down 15-core Xeon E7v2, are all sold out – and these are just the highest-ASP SKUs. I’ve worked with few of these speed bins on various workstation and HPC loads, with both DDR3L-1600 and DDR3-1866 memory, and its cache and memory subsystems are so effective that the actual memory choice doesn’t seem to matter much in most benchmarks.
The next few months will keep them busy introducing the four-socket Xeon EP v2 versions, as well as multi-socket Xeon EX v2, the 15-core monsters with 37.5 MB L3 and triple QPI channels per socket, covered here before.
So, what comes after them?
As explained a year ago, Haswell-EP development was in full swing for quite a while, and the first round of engineering samples seems to run very well. Just like Ivy Bridge-EP, the Haswell EP, officially Xeon E5v3, will have multiple die flavours to address both low-core count but high MHz, and high core count at less MHz, for various workstation, server and supercomputer and big data workloads.
While the Ivy Bridge-EP had 6-core and 10-core dies, with the 12-core flavor borrowed from the EX line, the Haswell-EP will have 8-core and 14-core dies at least – where it’s not confirmed yet if the top core-count die is also “borrowed from the 16+ core Haswell-EX”, meaning there is again a separate say 12-core main line “native” Haswell EP. We’ll know soon, as the systems start sampling to the OEMs and critical users over the next few months. This round of sampling will take Intel a bit more validation care and effort, since many other new things like DDR4 memory, sped-up 9.6 GT/s QPI, native USB3, SAS12G and PCIe SSDs will be rolled out at the same time into these systems.
Assuming the clock rates stay similar to the current E5v2, the top end of the Xeon E5v3, when they officially surface likely at (or just before) the next Intel Fall IDF in San Francisco, will be able to achieve close to 700 GFLOPs in double precision FP per socket, or 1.4 TFLOPs for a typical dual socket board – something that any top end GPU would have hard time matching, and this is without esoteric CUDA or OpenCL coding.
Even the 8-core enthusiast desktop Haswell-E, Core i7 59xx, will be able to give close to half a teraflop in double precision without much overclocking – the FMA fused multiply add extras do help here, something that 64-bit MIPS architecture had for over 15 years now, by the way.
Mouth watering yet or mybe your mind blown (due to the mount of text)? Unfortunately it doesn't stop here since Broadwell has been delayed to be officially launched in the last quarter of this year in-conjuction with possibly Haswell-E/X99, Intel have working towards their deadline to display early produce of Broadwell-EP.
Then we come to 2015, the same year when the next Xeon Phi would come out. The Xeon CPU to match it in the middle of that year will be “Broadwell EP” Xeon E5 v4, the first high end Xeon to be made in 14nm process. How about up to 18 cores and 45 MB L3 per socket, coupled with even faster memory? How will its innovations impact the competition?
The second part of this two-part series will be published on December 17.
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Full support for DDR4 memory will send a new generation of Intel Core Duo
2014-05-05 09:53 Source: PConline Original Author: Anonymous Editor: jiaguipeng (Comment 128 bar)
[info] PConline in PC chips from Intel and AMD compete everywhere, just rumors AMD in 2015 to restructure the performance rumors, on an Intel Solutions Summit held in Singapore in 2015 for the first time disclosed detailed planning, we will also introduce the long-awaited sixth-generation Core processor true, codenamed "Skylake", it will use 14nm technology and provides comprehensive support for DDR4 memory.
Intel's plans in the next year, will have two 14nm technology platform, the existing Bay Trail will be "Braswell" replaced, continue to the main mobile platforms, will be transferred to Atom sequence. "Skylake" is targeted at mainstream and high-performance market, replacing Haswell. Which Skylake desktop version SKL-S still using LGA separate package, there are four core GT2, dual-core GT2, quad-core GT4e different types. Mobile laptop into SKL-H, SKY-U, SKY-Y three series are integrated BGA package.
Before we said, the new Skylake will support DDR 4 memory, however, it is worth noting that only the desktop and mobile versions of H series will fully support most of the rest will be DDR 3. In addition, the wireless part after the update will be a great enhancement, in addition to continuing to upgrade Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wireless baseband support, but also a clear introduction of ultra high-speed wireless technology WiGig 60GHz band, and independent GNSS global positioning chips. Finally had to say, Skylake will introduce a full range of touch controller, thus contributing to reducing the cost of touch devices, promoting universal.
We have some new information regarding the upcoming Haswell-EP processors straight from the folks over at ServerTheHome who managed to get their hands on the first few samples of the Xeon E5 V3 CPU. From the looks of it, Intel would be releasing a third LGA2011 socket type for compatibility with the Haswell-EP generation of chips. Currently, Intel has two LGA2011 socket types which include the original LGA2011 socket which supports Sandy Bridge-EP and Ivy Bridge-EP. The second type which is known as the Socket FCLGA2011 was released with the Ivy Bridge-EX series. The same socket type is mentioned for the Ivy Bridge-EP chips but it isn’t compatible with the Xeon E7 V2 chips.
Intel is planning to introduce their third LGA2011 socket type known as the LGA2011-3 which will debut along with the Haswell-E and Haswell-EP generation of microprocessor families. This has been known since a while and the socket change was expected considering the new features such as DDR4 memory supported by the platform. The source also managed to take some comparison pictures of the Haswell-EP processor with Ivy Bridge-EX, Ivy Bridge-EP and Sandy Bridge-EP and gathered some interesting details:
A few quick details pop out. At first glance just looking at the four edges of the Sandy Bridge-EP and Ivy Bridge-EP chips one can see different contact pad alignment than the more full edges around Ivy Bridge-EX and Haswell-EP. At first glance Ivy Bridge-EX and Haswell-EP look like they have similar contact pad alignment. If you look along the bottom right edge you can see between the corner and the notch there are four contact pads on Ivy Bridge-EX. Looking at Haswell-EP there appear to be six. via ServerTheHome Intel Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 – Haswell Arrives on Xeon Processors
For their next-generation series, Intel is going to release the Haswell-EP generation of Xeon processors branded as the Xeon E5-2600 V3 which from an architecture perspective are a TOCK featuring the latest 4th generation Haswell microarchitecture. Based on a 22nm 3D Transistors process, the Xeon E5-2600 V3 family would support upto 14 cores per socket and 28 threads coupled with fast 35 MB LLC (Last Level Cache) and featuring both the Intel Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost technologies.
The new Haswell architecture would further leverage the performance over the existing Ivy Bridge architecture based Xeon family delivering more performance with improved efficiency which is the key role of effectiveness in the enterprise and workstation scape. Just like Ivy Bridge-EP before it, we will get multiple die variants of Xeon E5 2600 v3 family which will only be detailed once they launch next year.
Haswell-EP will be Intel’s first native platform to feature DDR4 memory support with speeds of 2133 MHz which will provide significant boost in bandwidth when compared to conventional DDR3-1866 MHz memory. Intel will also topple these chips with 40 PCI-Express Gen 3 lanes and we are looking at TDPs ranging between 70W to 145 Watts while the high-performance workstation parts will feature a TDP of 160W. Intel Broadwell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v4 – The First 14nm Xeon Processors
Following Haswell-EP is Broadwell-EP, Intel next-generation and first 14nm based Xeon processor series featuring their upcoming Broadwell architecture. Broadwell which according to Intel’s Tick-Tock roadmap is a Tick which means its essentially a die shrink (14nm) of Haswell featuring massive changes to the core design.
First of all, the Xeon E5-2600 V4 flagship processor would feature upto 18 cores and 36 threads on a single socket. That’s 72 threads running simultaneously on a dual socket enterprise setup and from the performance uplift chart , you can note that its going to be a complete and powerful package. Broadwell-EP will also be coupled with 45 MB of Cache (LLC) and will natively support DDR4-2400 MHz memory which is a decent upgrade over Haswell-EP but that puts the total improvement over DDR3 to about 25 percent which is great. TDPs are expected to remain the same as Haswell-EP for each part but take it as an improvement since a Broadwell-EP with 18 cores would be featuring a 160W TDP which is the same as a 14 Core Haswell-EP variant.
On the clock frequency side, we aren’t looking at the 18 or 14 core chips to be clocked high from 3 to 3.3 GHz but the 10-12 core variants have the probability of featuring speeds as high as 4 GHz with lower TDPs. Intel Ivy Bridge-EP Intel Haswell-EP Intel Broadwell-EP Series Xeon E5-2600 v2 Xeon E5-2600 v3 Xeon E5-2600 v4 Max Cores 12 14 18 Threads 24 28 36 LLC Cache 30 MB L3 35 MB L3 45 MB L3 Memory DDR3-1866 DDR4-2133 DDR4-2400 Memory Population Quad Channel DDR3 Quad Channel DDR4 (3 LRDIMM) Quad Channel DDR4 (3DS LRDIMM) Chipset C610 ‘Wellsburg’ C610 ‘Wellsburg’ C610 ‘Wellsburg’ TDP 130W 145W (160W Workstation Only) 145W (160W Workstation Only) Launch IDF 2013 IDF 2014? IDF 2015?
Intel Broadwell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v4 details leaked
4:05 pm | December 18, 2013 by Afaq Shahid 0 Comments
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We’ve yet to see the Haswell-EP based Xeon E5-2600 v3 series processors rolling out into the market but the details about its successors have already started leaking out. Intel is expected to launch Broadwell-EP based Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors sometime around the summer of 2015. Main focus of these chips will also be on efficient performance as the v3 ones and these will also use the same Haswell microarchitecture but on a smaller manufacturing node of 14nm. However, Intel simply is not stopping there. Aside from moving towards the smaller manufacturing node, E5-2600 v4 will come with more cores, lots of cache and several other improvements.
To begin with, Intel will be bumping up the core count to 18 as compared to 14 of Haswell-EP. This results in a total of 36 threads with Hyper Threading technology. Furthermore, we’ll have 2.5 MB of LLC cache resulting in a total of 45 MB for the 18 core chips. Broadwell-EP will also make use of the technology where the cache of the sleeping cores can be utilized by other cores; this isn’t possible in current server level processors. And we’ll obviously see DDR4 memory support with up to 2400 MHz speeds. With two slots per channel, single socket Broadwell-EP systems will be able to have up to 1TB of DDR4 memory with the help of 3DS LRDIMMs. Dual socket configurations will be able to have up to 2TB of memory. Intel will also offer up to forty gigabit Ethernet chips, ‘Fultonvale’ 2 TB PCIe v3 SSD cards and Xeon Phi PCIe 3 coprocessors to further enhance the ability of systems. We’ll reportedly see raw double precision FP rate of up to 1 TFLOPs with single 18 core chip.
On the chipset side, the C610 Wellsburg will be compatible with the 2015 Broadwell-EP chips however this chipset will be launched early next year alongside the Haswell-EP platform. There will be no stepping upgrade required for Broadwell-EP to work with C610 chipset, a simple BIOS update will do the trick.
Source: VR-Zone
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