Xeon E5 Broadwell and Purley platform base Xeon E5 Skylake/Cannonlake & HEDT

[NumLock21]

Intel is finally planning to replace their Brickland and Grantely platforms with the latest Purley platform which will support the next generation Skylake and Cannonlake processors. Intel Skylake launched in August this year and is gradually making its way into the mobility and desktop market with high-end parts planned for launch in 2017. Today, we can confirm that Purley platform will not only support Skylake but also the Cannonlake chips.

 

Continuing with support on the current Intel X99 chipset. XFastest has got some info on the upcoming Intel Broadwell-EP cpus as well as Skylake-EP/EX and CannonLake-EP/EX.

Broadwell-EP

-Xeon E5 1600 and 2600 v4

-Up to 8 cores on the 1600 v4 and 22 cores on the 2600 v4

-Official support for DDR4 2400MHz

-Launch sometimes in Q2 2016

 

Broadwell-EX

-Xeon E7 4800 and 8800 v4

-Not much info on the number of core counts.

-Compatible with existing Brickland platform

-Launching in Q2 2016

 

Skylake-EP and EX

-Xeon E5 2600 and 4600 v5 and Xeon E7 8800 v5

-Up to 28 cores

-Features Intel Storm Lake gen 1, capable of up to 100GB/s interconnect speeds

-6 channel DDR4

-48 PCIe lanes per CPU

-We should expect it around 1H 2017

 

Cannonlake EP and EX

-Xeon E5 2600 v6 and Xeon E7 4800 and 8800 v6.

-Uses the same Intel Purley platform as Xeon E5 Skylake

-More PCIe lanes per CPU, higher than 48*

-Up to 32 cores

-Higher official DDR4 support*

-Support for PCIe 4.0*

- Launching around 2018?

*possible rumors

 

HEDT

-Skylake-E

-New socket, not compatible with current socket 2011-3

-6 Channel DDR4

-Possible increase core count?

-Study by HWInsights shows that the most possible popular cpus isn't due to clock speed, but the features it comes with. Both 980X and 5960X having a premium price of $1,000 dollars and yet it's the most popular because the 980X is the first consumer 6 cores and 5960X is the first consumer 8 cores cpu.

Now LTT rule says you must include personal input on this. If I did, it'll probably turn into a essay. Instead of that, I'll post a pic. After all a  pic is worth a thousand words.

 

 

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[Exotath]

Soooo.... are we not getting Broadwell E on 2011-3?

[NumLock21]

Soooo.... are we not getting Broadwell E on 2011-3?

Broadwell-e will be on 2011-3.

[Deletive]

Broadwell-EP and Server Zen, I can't wait to see how they compare. (not only in performance but in price too) 

[MercianUK]

I understand delays are going to happen -- and that Intel are hardly under any pressure from competition to release a new home/small server platform -- but the lack of good communication from Intel is pissing me off. I've been dubiously holding off on a home server project for months, since all indications in the press (up to as recently as a month ago) maintained that we should expect Broadwell-EP this year. Screw waiting another 6 months for marginally better efficiency... but then what I am going to do, buy a Haswell-EP CPU instead? I don't want to, but it's not like I've got many other options -- not without cutting my nose off to spite my face.

 

Purley sounds like the only development on their roadmap that's actually going to bring any meaningful improvements. At this rate, if they deliver that on schedule for 1H 2017 I'll be amazed.

[GloriousPain]

So Skylake E and it's derivitives (like cannon lake E and such) aren't gonna be 2011-3 compatible? Kinda salty I was/am about to invest in X99 2011-3, 5820k was hoping to be able to upgrade later to a "7960x/8960x" (Skylake/Cannonlake Extreme edition)

[patrickjp93]

So Skylake E and it's derivitives (like cannon lake E and such) aren't gonna be 2011-3 compatible? Kinda salty I was/am about to invest in X99 2011-3, 5820k was hoping to be able to upgrade later to a "7960x/8960x" (Skylake/Cannonlake Extreme edition)

None of Intel's sockets last more than 2 generations, not since Nehalem at least.

[GloriousPain]

None of Intel's sockets last more than 2 generations, not since Nehalem at least.

Yeah I know but I was really hoping probably still gonna go through with X99; guess this just means I need to have more hope in Broadwell E and hope they don't make it a snoozefest like Z97 Broadwell

or 5960x or new mobo when I upgrade oh well.

[RagnarokDel]

Linus should make a toaster using a Xeon Cannonlake 32 cores/64 threads cpu. @LinusTech

[Ekpyrosis]

Yeah I know but I was really hoping probably still gonna go through with X99; guess this just means I need to have more hope in Broadwell E and hope they don't make it a snoozefest like Z97 Broadwell

or 5960x or new mobo when I upgrade oh well.

The changes they made with Skylake, in particular the removal of the FIVR make it impossible to make a X99 compatible Skylake chips, unless they take a step back from the consumer platform.

[GloriousPain]

The changes they made with Skylake, in particular the removal of the FIVR make it impossible to make a X99 compatible Skylake chips, unless they take a step back from the consumer platform.

I thought X99 already had removed FIVR but guess I was wrong; damn as said ohwell just means 5960x or 6960x would be each decent upgrades; or just get a new motherboard

[CatCloud]

No clue what HEDT is but when is the rumored release date for Skylake-E?? End of 2016?

And.... Uh what is EX?

[NumLock21]

No clue what HEDT is but when is the rumored released Skylake-E?? End of 2016?

And.... Uh what is EX?

HEDT = High End DeskTop. Core i7 5820K, 5930K, and 5960X are part of HEDT. EX is for Xeon E7 where it supports 4 to 8 sockets.

Haswell-E (Core i7)

Haswell-EP (Xeon E5)

Haswell-EX (Xeon E7)

[farhanorakzai]

if cannonlake has possible support for pci express 4.0 what will happen to nvlink with pascal?

[JebKerman]

why would we need PCIe 4.0 now? does anything actually come close to saturating 3.0 yet?

[NumLock21]

why would we need PCIe 4.0 now? does anything actually come close to saturating 3.0 yet?

Does anything come close to saturating 2.0 yet?

[Swndlr]

Linus' now looks like a peasant with his 2699 V3's lmao

[patrickjp93]

why would we need PCIe 4.0 now? does anything actually come close to saturating 3.0 yet?

  

Does anything come close to saturating 2.0 yet?

HPC saturated PCIe 3.0 the moment it came out. It's still a huge barrier today. The problem is Intel and IBM aren't the only ones calling the shots on PCIe these days, so development has slowed to a crawl. Intel should just set a new standard, make it open and royalty/license free, and implement it on their reference boards. The industry will move with them.