Intel's Xeon E5-2600 V2: 12-core Ivy Bridge EP for Servers
by Johan De Gelas on September 17, 2013 12:00 AM ESTSKUs and Pricing
Before we start with the benchmarks, we first want to see what you get for your money. Let's compare the AMD chips with Intel's offerings. To reduce the clutter, we did not list all of the SKUs but have tried to include useful points of comparison.
| AMD vs. Intel 2-socket SKU Comparison | |||||||||
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Xeon E5 |
Cores/ Threads |
TDP |
Clock Speed (GHz) |
Price | Opteron |
Modules/ Integer cores |
TDP |
Clock Speed (GHz) |
Price |
| High Performance | High Performance | ||||||||
| 2697v2 | 12/24 | 130W | 2.7-3.5 | $2614 | |||||
| 2695v2 | 12/24 | 115W | 2.4-3.2 | $2336 | |||||
| 2687Wv2 | 8/16 | 150W | 3.4-4.0 | $2108 | |||||
| 2680v2 | 10/20 | 115W | 2.8-3.6 | $1723 | |||||
| 2680(*) | 8/16 | 130W | 2.7-3.5 | $1723 | |||||
| 2660v2 | 10/20 | 115W | 2.2-3.0 | $1389 | 6386SE | 8/16 | 140W | 2.8-3.5 | $1392 |
| Midrange | Midrange | ||||||||
| 2650v2 | 8/16 | 95W | 2.6-3.4 | $1166 | 6380 | 8/16 | 115W | 2.5-3.4 | $1088 |
| 2640v2 | 8/16 | 95W | 2.0-2.5 | $885 | |||||
| 6376 | 8/16 | 115W | 2.3-3.2 | $703 | |||||
| Budget | Budget | ||||||||
| 2630v2 | 6/12 | 80W | 2.6-3.1 | $612 | 6348 | 6/12 | 115W | 2.8-3.4 | $575 |
| 2620v2 | 6/12 | 80W | 2.1-2.6 | $406 | 6234 | 6/12 | 115W | 2.4-3.0 | $415 |
| Power Optimized | Power Optimized | ||||||||
| 2650Lv2 | 10/20 | 70W | 1.7-2.1 | $1219 | |||||
| 2630Lv2 | 6/12 | 70W | 2.4-2.8 | $612 | 6366HE | 8/16 | 85W | 1.8-3.1 | $575 |
(*) Sandy Bridge based Xeon, for reference purposes
The lack of competition at the high-end cannot be more obvious. AMD simply does not have anything competitive at the moment in that part of the market. However, Intel and the OEMs still have to convince the data center people to keep the upgrade cycles relatively short. If you look at the the E5 2680 v2, you get two extra cores, a 100MHz clock speed bump and a lower TDP compared to the predecessor E5 2680. Intel charges more for the best Xeons, but you do get more for your money.
The most expensive Xeon (at 130W TDP) is a lot more expensive, but that is no surprise given the fact that it it is an expensive chip to make with such a massive die (12 cores, 30MB L3, two separate memory controllers).
Every Opteron has been relegated to the lower-end and midrange segments, and it is not looking good. We know that the AMD Opteron needs more threads or clock speed to keep up with the previous Xeon E5 performance wise. The midrange and budget AMD Opterons no longer have that advantage, and they need more power too. A price cut looks to be necessary, although an Opteron server is typically less expensive than a similar Xeon system.
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psyq321 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Yep, EP-46xx v2 will use the same C1 stepping (for HCC SKUs) for production parts as 2P Xeons, but there will be some features enabled in microcode which did not make it in the 26xx SKUs.EX is already on D1 stepping for QS, as the validation cycle for EX is more strict due to more RAS features etc.
Casper42 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
So I work for HP and your comments about 4x1P instead of 2x2P make me wonder if you have been sneaking around our ProLiant development lab in Houston.I was there 6 weeks ago and a decent sized cluster of 1P nodes was being assembled on an as yet unannounced HP platform. I was told the early/beta customer it was for had done some testing and found for their particular HPC app, they were in fact getting measurably better overall performance.
The interesting thing about this design was they put 2 x 1P nodes on a single PCB (Motherboard) in order to more easily adapt the 1P nodes to a system largely designed with 2P space requirements in mind.
Pretty sure the chips were Haswell based as well but can't recall for sure.
André - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Would be nice to see benchmarks for OS X, considering this thing is going inside the new Mac Pro.Final Cut X, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve etc.
I believe the 2660v2 hits the sweet spot with it's 10 cores.
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
That'd require Apple giving Anandtech a new Mac Pro to run benchmarks on...Kevin G - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Now that Intel has officially launched the new Xeons, the new Mac Pro can't be far behind.wallysb01 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Well, you could run the CPU benchmarks just fine. But not the GPU ones.Simon G - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Typo in Conclusion section . . . " Thta's no small feat, . . ."garadante - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
There's a minor error on the Cinebench single-threaded graph. It has the clock speed for the E5-2697 v2 as 2.9 instead of 2.7, as it should be. Which is semi confusing on that graph as it explains the lower single-threaded performance from the E5-2690.SanX - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
This forum has most obsolete comments design of pre-Neanderthals times, no Edit, no Delete, no look at previous user comments. Effin shameMrSpadge - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
You mixed up forum and article comments.