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2CPU.com » News » December 2006 » Anandtech: Quad Core Intel Xeon 5300 series review

Anandtech: Quad Core Intel Xeon 5300 series review

Posted by: ReMeDy on: 12/27/2006 09:46 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ]

Anandtech's editor, Johan, gives his analysis on Xeon 5300 series. Codenamed: Clovertown.
The past 6 months have been excellent for Intel: after regaining the performance crown in the dual socket server market, there is also now a very viable and lowly priced alternative for the more expensive quad Opteron based systems. However, it is not all bad news for AMD. The current quad core might be good for Intel's yields, time to market, and production costs, but it does have a weakness. The quad core Xeon scaling is very mediocre, and this despite a high performance chipset. The current 5000p chipset has a large 16MB snoop filter, reads speculatively to decrease memory latency, and has a whole other bag of clever tricks to get more performance out of the platform. Despite all this and a 2x4MB L2 cache setup, the quad core Xeon scales worse than the relatively old quad Opteron platform.
A very interesting article from Johan and should be read and not skipped at all. Read the entire article here.



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kiku
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#39449 Posted on: 12/28/2006 02:14 AM
really sad :(

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2897&p=1 {BIG apple vs small apple vs old small apple}
says ...woodcrest > Clovertown (in terms of scaling)
other than that performance wise clovertown > wood crest > opteron(940 based)


To the financial analysts, CRM, ERP and Java server people, the new quad core Xeon E53xx is close to irresistible. You can get four cores for the price of two, or up to eight (!) cores in a relatively cheap dual socket server. We observed at least a 40% performance increase compared to probably the best dual core CPU of today: the Xeon 5160.



The past 6 months have been excellent for Intel: after regaining the performance crown in the dual socket server market, there is also now a very viable and lowly priced alternative for the more expensive quad Opteron based systems.



AMD Socket-F Opteron vs. Intel Woodcrest --- http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2892&p=1
close to apples vs apples

All things considered, the Opterons are holding their own and doing very well for an architecture which is 3.5 years old. Only companies that are routinely running their servers near capacity are likely to truly benefit from an upgrade at this point in time.


* Since AMD supplied for previous review so the review is.... :)

* Can i say its some thing, why AMD supplied last time why not know.. ??(honestly directed to AMD not to anyone)

* ahahaha which performs better ..... ?

---> As always, read reviews for time pass but dont trust 100% ???.....



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#39451 Posted on: 12/29/2006 09:30 AM
I find this review a bit odd.... yeah, I can believe that quad Xeons might be faster then similar albeit older AMD systems. If only to prove my point that socket f's are hard to come by here in the Netherlands.

To sum it all up : intels are faster but have less fuel in the tank on the longer run. A pincount/socket upgrade from Intel side seems inevetable as the fourth core is hardly used due to bandwith saturation. Just the other day I saw an Intel demo of Alan Wake and was wondering why the 4th core was almost idling; AND would that be the case with the bandwith plethora on the newer socket f platform.

Until we see it we just might be guessing; but I know that synthetic benchmarking can only go so far, but the trusty dnetc client stats show shocking stats where AMD pushed almost 45 Milion keys when compared to the meager 33 Mil keys of newer (!) xeons.

Due to the plenty of bandwith and upgrade options for socket f I stick with my choice; as the upgradability of a xeon board remains to be seen with 3 socket changes during the last 3 to 4 years. Which is in my account the lifespan of a good rig.

Call me a fanboi; this will be my first dual socket AMD system, and if I could see a future with Xeons I would stick with Intel; but I don't see light at the end of the saturated bandwith tunnel and a socket change halfway; yes AMD might also have a socket change up its sleeve, but that's my risk :P

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