Xeon 7100 Series

[jlobee]

These Xeon 7100 chips came out the end of August, but I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing these to the recently released Woodcrest Xeons (5100 series). The only obvious differences i see are a bigger cache, slower fsb, and higher price.

Does anyone know of any reviews/benchmarks of this new chip?

 

[myocardia]

Google is your friend: link.

 

[Accord99]

Originally posted by: jlobee
These Xeon 7100 chips came out the end of August, but I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing these to the recently released Woodcrest Xeons (5100 series). The only obvious differences i see are a bigger cache, slower fsb, and higher price.

Does anyone know of any reviews/benchmarks of this new chip?

They're targetted at the MP market, 4 sockets and higher so they're far more expensive. They currently form the fastest x86 servers available for a number of key enterprise applications.

 

[hardwareking]

the 7100 chips are tulsa which are based on the netburst procs.Those pack really large L3 caches and are meant to be used in 4P or higher.
Very pricey indeed.I still don't see why intel didn't release a Core archtitecture version for 4P servers yet?

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: hardwareking
the 7100 chips are tulsa which are based on the netburst procs.Those pack really large L3 caches and are meant to be used in 4P or higher.
Very pricey indeed.I still don't see why intel didn't release a Core archtitecture version for 4P servers yet?

Server components takes more validation time. They are generally a generation behind desktop components.

 

[hardwareking]

but if i recall correctly the woodcrest chips came out before the desktop version(conroe) did.I could be wrong though.

 

[dexvx]

I meant for 4S+ Servers, the XeonMP's are traditionally 1 whole generation behind the 2S/Desktop varieties.

 

[hardwareking]

so that means tigerton(or whatever) which is supposed to come out in Q3 2007 is the core succesor to tulsa,right?