Intel Xeon 2666 v3

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

So I don't know much about this specific cpu because it doesn't show up in the Ark website. But from. What I understand it's a 10 core, 20 thread, 2.9 ghz, xeon cpu.  That's all I know really. Uh so I'm interested in like I want it pretty bad, but I don't know if it's worth it. What do you guys think? Also how would this compare to a 6950x? Being 10 core and and only 100mhz off from.the base clock of the 6950x, how does it match up against it? What are the differences? And what feature besides overclocking will change the tides?

[SCHISCHKA]

I can't find the xeon on ark.intel.com but this is the i7

http://ark.intel.com/products/94456/Intel-Core-i7-6950X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-25M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

these two say the xeon has 9 cores

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2666+v3+%40+2.90GHz&id=2471&cpuCount=2

http://www.cmips.net/tag/intel-xeon-e5-2666-v3-2-90ghz/

cpuworld says the xeon has 10 cores

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon E5-2666 v3.html

It seems theres an ES-2666 and a E5-2666 and a modified version for OEM's to run in data centres. that might explain the discrepancy

 

The Xeon has slightly lower TDP. The 9 core above is 105W, the 10core xeon is 135W, and the i7 is 140W

The xeon produeced on 22nm and i7 is 14nm

the xeon has no integrated graphics

i7 has overclocking

I think you can't put the i7 in a multi-socket motherboard please correct me if this is wrong

 

The TDP isn't much difference and seems they're on the same socket so I guess it really does come down to overclocking

[porina]

Looks like it was a special for Amazon's cloud, The Xeon would support ECC if that matters for you, but the consumer CPU would be overclockable and also support higher speed ram. The cost may also be a factor...

[TheLaserCucumber]

3 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

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The i7 hasn't got an iGPU either. 

Haswell-E and Broadwell-E don't have iGPUs in general. I don't know how it is wirh earlier -E lines.

[SCHISCHKA]

8 hours ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

The i7 hasn't got an iGPU either. 

Haswell-E and Broadwell-E don't have iGPUs in general. I don't know how it is wirh earlier -E lines.

yes tour right I missed that