1/11/2012 09:56:00 PM
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Intel might not have yet made the server version of its Sandy Bridge-E processors available in the retail market, but the company is already working on the successor of this architecture, dubbed Ivy Bridge-EP, which will feature up to 10 processing cores.
Scheduled to be released no sooner than 2013, an engineering sample of such a CPU has recently been detailed by a leaked CPU-Z screenshot published by Hardcore Hardware.
The 1.59 version of CPU-Z correctly recognized this chip as an Ivy Bridge-EP/EX processor and reveals that it packs 10-cores with Hyper-Threading support working at a base frequency of 2.4GHz.
According to the screenshot, the CPU requires only 1.016V in order to operate at this clocks speed which enables it to fit inside a 95 Watt power envelope while also holding no less than 25MB of shared Level 3 cache memory.
Furthermore, all the features that are supported in the upcoming Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge-EP processors are also enabled, including AES, AVX, VT-x virtualization and SSE 4.2.
If we were to compare this Ivy Bridge-EP engineering sample with Intel’s upcoming range of Xeon E5 server processors, the closest match would be the Xeon E5-2660.
This also has a 95W TDP, but it features an eight-core design, “only” 20MB of Level 3 cache memory and has a 200MHz lower operating frequency.
The increased energy efficiency of Ivy Bridge-EP is possible thanks to the move to the 22nm Tri-Gate manufacturing process, which Intel says it can reduce power consumption by as much as 50%, when compared to 32nm planar CPUs.
Just like the chips based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture, Ivy Bridge-EP will also use the LGA 2011 socket, but some rumors seem to indicate that the CPUs will require new chipsets in order to function properly. We’ll keep you up to date if we manage to find out more.
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