Intel recently released the Xeon E7 v2 processor, which uses a new architecture and manufacturing process. It also adds a number of new features that greatly increase processor performance. The E7 v2 uses a Xeon E7-8890 V2 chip with 15 processing cores, a 3rd-level cache of 37.5 MB and a base frequency of 2.8 GHz. The E7 v2 processor supports Turbo Boost technology and can overclock to 3.4GHz.

Intel recently released a new Xeon E3 processor. The E3-1284L v3 processor chip has 47 watts of low thermal design power consumption, the only SKU processing chip in the E3-1200 v3 series chip, integrated Iris Pro 5200 graphics chip. Unfortunately, the E3-1284L v3 does not support the LGA1150 interface, which is a BGA chip that cannot be used on the 1150 motherboard interface. The chip specifications are the same as those of the Core i7-4860EQ. The E3-1284L v3 has 4 processing cores, 6MB of L3 cache, base frequency of 1.8GHz, and Turbo Boost overclocking technology up to 3.2GHz.

Last week, Intel also released a faster E7-8895 v2 SKU chip. This chip includes all the features of the E7-8890 V2, and the Turbo Boost frequency is higher than 200MHz, but it also increases the maximum temperature at work, which means that A better heat dissipation solution is needed to solve the heat problem. The E7-8895 v2 SKU chip also features 15 processing cores, Hyper-Threading Technology support, 37.5MB L3 cache, and 155 watts of thermal design power. The E7-8895 v2 supports DDR3-1600 memory. Like other Xeon E7 v2 SKU chips, it uses the LGA2011-1 or R1 motherboard interface.

Intel said that the chip gives the company a “performance leadership” and can compete with rival AMD x86 chips and IBM Power series server chips. Intel said that compared to IBM's RISC processor chip, its new chip's operating performance increased by 80%, but the total cost of ownership (Total Cost of Ownership, TCO) is reduced by 80%. Intel's new processor chip performance is twice as high as that of the previous generation of Xeon products. Its bandwidth input and output performance is four times that of the previous generation. The memory capacity is three times that of the previous generation. In addition, the chip has refreshed 20 key tasks. Performance record.

The author's point of view:

The server area has always been Intel's strengths. Its performance in the server market has been excellent with the secure and reliable high-performance Xeon series processors. The update of new products will not only give users more powerful performance, but also bring a lot of pressure to competitors. With the new Xeon E7 v2 processor, the new x86 multi-processor server will have the ability to compete with RISC architecture minicomputers in key business applications such as reliability, stability, and security.