What are Intel Xeons used for?

[KrazyforOnce]

I'm not familiar with this series. They look kinda obsolete but I have no idea. 

[themctipers]

Server grade CPUs. More cache, cores, threads, better server software support, fancy raid/IO solutions, ECC ram/more ram, etc

[Droidbot]

Server chips. 4-22 cores, significantly more cache, special instruction set features, fancy IO (including optane), very good ECC support and dual/quad CPU support

[aakopa]

They are also used for high end workstations which require a lot of computational power.

[KrazyforOnce]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Server chips. 4-22 cores, significantly more cache, special instruction set features, fancy IO (including optane), very good ECC support and dual/quad CPU support

Server chips... so are they any good for gaming? 

[ProjectBox153]

Servers. And they're nowhere near obsolete. They are some of the most powerful CPUs these days. 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, KrazyforOnce said:

Server chips... so are they any good for gaming? 

Sometimes, but not usually. They're way overpriced for that. 

[Droidbot]

Just now, KrazyforOnce said:

Server chips... so are they any good for gaming? 

Nope. You don't realistically need more than 4 cores for gaming and the amount of cores they have means a lower clock speed for all of them - meaning lower single-core performance. 

[BubblyCharizard]

Also, they are a good way of upgrading older PC's

 

I swapped my core i7 920 for a Xeon x5650, 2 more cores...but much better single core improvement

[KrazyforOnce]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Nope. You don't realistically need more than 4 cores for gaming and the amount of cores they have means a lower clock speed for all of them - meaning lower single-core performance. 

Ok thanks! 

[Droidbot]

Just now, BubblyCharizard said:

Also, they are a good way of upgrading older PC's

 

I swapped my core i7 920 for a Xeon x5650, 2 more cores...but much better single core improvement

Yeah, the 1366 Xeons are amazing value especially when OC'd. Pretty much on par with a modern 6 core when pushed

[KrazyforOnce]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Yeah, the 1366 Xeons are amazing value especially when OC'd. Pretty much on par with a modern 6 core when pushed

Could these Xeons be a workstation CPU?

[BubblyCharizard]

yes, they have excellent potential for heavy workloads

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, KrazyforOnce said:

Could these Xeons be a workstation CPU?

Yeah. They could

[Windows7ge]

Usually used in servers. Like this forum. It probably uses Xeon processors in it unless it's using the AMD equivalent (I believe they're called Opteron). Xeons run at a lower clock frequency, have a lower TDP than a desktop equivalent but tend to have more cores in them for extreme multi threaded workloads like having 1,000's upon millions of requests from multiple clients like the very server were logged into right now. Plus it has the perks of support for error correcting memory and more cache than desktop variants as others have stated.

[Droidbot]

Just now, KrazyforOnce said:

Could these Xeons be a workstation CPU?

There is Xeon Workstation chips, namely the old W series and new 1600 series

[Droidbot]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

Usually used in servers. Like this forum. It probably uses Xeon processors in it unless it's using the AMD equivalent (I believe they're called Opteron). Xeons run at a lower clock frequency, have a lower TDP than a desktop equivalent but tend to have more cores in them for extreme multi threaded workloads like having 1,000's upon millions of requests from multiple clients like the very server were logged into right now. Plus it has the perks of support for error correcting memory and more cache than desktop variants as others have stated.

Lower TDP? Hell no. They're 120-165w chips.. 

[KrazyforOnce]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Lower TDP? Hell no. They're 120-165w chips.. 

In New Zealand, the most expensive Xeon chip is the Intel Xeon E5-2699. Priced at $6449. Costing more than my mums and brothers car combined!!!

[BubblyCharizard]

my core i7 was 135W TDP, xeon is 95W

[Droidbot]

Just now, KrazyforOnce said:

In New Zealand, the most expensive Xeon chip is the Intel Xeon E5-2699. Priced at $6449. Costing more than my mums and brothers car combined!!!

Because it has 22 freaking cores on one chip.. businesses have that sort of money

[KrazyforOnce]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Because it has 22 freaking cores on one chip.. businesses have that sort of money

22 Cores! WOW!!! I can have millions of porn pages on screen 24/7! Thats ear rape, LITERALLY 

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Lower TDP? Hell no. They're 120-165w chips.. 

Jeeze calm down. It depends what you compare them to. Take a 4 core 8  thread desktop CPU and compare its TDP to a 4 core 8 thread xeon. Generally the Xeon at a lower clock speed has a lower TDP. Of course some Xeons are exceptions to this like in my dual E5-2670 server. Both CPUs have a tdp rating very close to a 3930K. It depends on the chips being compared but the tdp of a Xeon is usually less than a comparable desktop chip in terms of core/thread count.

[Tellos]

@KrazyforOnce There are systems with many more cores running than those. Especially once your running multiple sockets of CPUs.

[Droidbot]

3 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Jeeze calm down. It depends what you compare them to. Take a 4 core 8  thread desktop CPU and compare its TDP to a 4 core 8 thread xeon. Generally the Xeon at a lower clock speed has a lower TDP. Of course some Xeons are exceptions to this like in my dual E5-2670 server. Both CPUs have a tdp rating very close to a 3930K. It depends on the chips being compared but the tdp of a Xeon is usually less than a comparable desktop chip in terms of core/thread count.

Of course, but besides the L series chips, modern Xeons are higher power than their desktop counterparts. Compare the E5 1600 v4 series for example, where a 4c/8t chip (1630v4) is 140w.. and the PCH consumes 500mW more than the normal 6w PCH on Sky/Kabylake

[Herman Mcpootis]

23 minutes ago, KrazyforOnce said:

Server chips... so are they any good for gaming? 

The xeons from consumer sockets like the e3 xeons will perform pretty much exactly as their i5/7 counterparts and thus still be good for gaming. Some xeons from other sockets may have slow clockspeeds(closer to 2ghz) that aren't very good for gaming.