Intel Announces New Entry-Level Xeon E-2100 Family

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When Intel revamped its Xeon production branding concluding year with the Xeon Scalable Processor family, it didn't supervene upon its entire Xeon lineup in one fell dive. Entry-level Xeons were still tied to the old E3 v6 family and were explicitly based on Kaby Lake (7th Gen) Intel cores, rather than the higher core-count Java Lake chips that Intel launched in the consumer infinite. Today, the company is updating its entry-level Xeon platform with a new make and model range. The new Xeon E-2100 family is the result.

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The new SKUs run the gamut of TDPs — though go on in listen that Intel's TDP figures are given nether the assumption that the CPU is running at its stock clock and exercise not reflect power consumption under load. The parts themselves top out at 4.7GHz maximum turbo and generally adapt to the Coffee Lake SKUs Intel has launched, though there are more Xeon East-2100 CPUs than there are entries in the 8th Gen Core i7, i5, or i3 individual families. Parts marked with a double ** in a higher place lack Hyper-Threading — it's not articulate why Intel is turning that capability off at all in a Xeon part — while not all CPUs have onboard graphics. According to Intel, these differences are merely to hit specific target markets. The visitor sometimes releases specific Xeons with larger amounts of L3 per CPU core, but information technology hasn't done that here — quad-core chips take 8MB, while half-dozen-cadre CPUs have 12MB.

Other features, like the PCIe lane support, crave boosted caption. In the past, Intel has sometimes outfitted its college-end systems with more PCIe lanes than its desktop parts; some Cadre X CPUs have more PCI Express lanes than your standard Core i7-8700K . That's not the case here, however. Upwardly to 16 lanes of PCIe iii.0 connectivity are provided to the CPU for GPU connectivity, with the rest of the lanes hanging off the southbridge and connected to the CPU via a DMI connexion equivalent to an x4 PCIe 3.0 lane. This shouldn't bottleneck anyone considering a Xeon E system, only there's no additional feature back up here, either.

Entry-level Xeon customers should see a meaning performance improvement from the new Xeon E-2100 family compared with older Xeon E3 v6 CPUs. The addition of extra CPU cores and higher tiptop-line frequencies will provide the aforementioned overall performance improvement to Xeon that the Cadre family unit has already benefited from. The leap between Xeon East-2100 and Xeon E3v6 should be roughly equivalent to the gains nosotros saw between Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake.