[GTALUG] Intel i7-6700 vs Xeon E3-1230 v5 --> 65W vs 80W ??

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jul 4 11:51:33 EDT 2016


On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 12:30:56PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> They are both 14nm.  Xeon turbos to 3.8GHz and no GPU at 80W, but i7
> turbos to 4GHz with GPU at 65W.  Me thinks it's Intel marketing.  Take
> dies that fail QA, rebrand them as "Xeon", and sell just below i7.

That is exactly what they are doing.  The dies that work at low voltage
get sold as i7 with a TDP of 65W, while the ones that need more voltage or
have a broken GPU get the GPU disabled and are sold as the low end Xeon.
So you might get a Xeon that runs at 65W but is a xeon simply because
the GPU was broken, or you might get one with a perfectly working GPU
but which needed a bit more than 65W to do the specs.  Either way you get
what intel promised.  You might get better than that, but no promises
from intel.

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Len Sorensen


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