Sandy Bridge-E: 17 New Xeon CPUs for Q4

Later this year, Intel will launch the Romley-EP dual-socket platform, comprised of 17 different E5-2600 models. The E5-2600 line-up will consist of 2, 4, 6 and 8 cores, operating at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz, and featuring up to 20 MB of L3 cache. They will be supported on the LGA 2011 socket.

Xeon E5-2600 series is going to have eight 8 cores (16 threads) with 20 MB of L3 cache. In this processor family are the Xeon E5-2650, E5-2650L, E5-2660, E5-2665, E5-2670, E5-2680, E5-2687W and E5-2690. The fastest 8-core Xeon, the E5-2687W, is clocked at 3.1 GHz with a 150 W TDP.

There will be five 6-core (12 threads) chips with 15 MB of L3 cache: the Xeon E5-2620, E5-2630, E5-2630L, E5-2640 and E5-2667. These chips will run at frequencies ranging from 2 GHz to 2.9 GHz.

There will be three 4-core chips with 10 MB of L3 cache. The processors are Xeon E5-2643, E5-2603 and E5-2609. The E5-2643 has the highest core frequency of 3.3 GHz in the whole line-up and will have Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost.

The two entry-level Xeons, E5-2603 and E5-2609, on the other hand, do not support Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost technologies. The 2603 and 2609 chips are clocked at 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz, have a TDP of 80 Watt and have a maximum supported DDR3 memory data rate of 1066 MHz.

Xeon E5-2637 is a dual-core CPU with 3 GHz clock speed, 5 MB L3 cache, and 80 Watt TDP.

Specifications of all upcoming E5-2600 processors are provided in the table below:

Model	Cores	Threads	Frequency	L3 cache	DDR3 support	TDP
Xeon E5-2603	4	4	1.8 GHz	10 MB	DDR3-1066	80 Watt
Xeon E5-2609	4	4	2.4 GHz	10 MB	DDR3-1066	80 Watt
Xeon E5-2620	6	12	2 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1333	95 Watt
Xeon E5-2630	6	12	2.3 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1333	95 Watt
Xeon E5-2630L	6	12	2 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1333	60 Watt
Xeon E5-2637	2	4	3 GHz	5 MB	DDR3-1600	80 Watt
Xeon E5-2640	6	12	2.5 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1333	95 Watt
Xeon E5-2643	4	8	3.3 GHz	10 MB	DDR3-1600	130 Watt
Xeon E5-2650	8	16	2 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	95 Watt
Xeon E5-2650L	8	16	1.8 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	70 Watt
Xeon E5-2660	8	16	2.2 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	95 Watt
Xeon E5-2665	8	16	2.4 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	115 Watt
Xeon E5-2667	6	12	2.9 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1600	130 Watt
Xeon E5-2670	8	16	2.6 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	115 Watt
Xeon E5-2680	8	16	2.7 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	130 Watt
Xeon E5-2687W	8	16	3.1 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	150 Watt
Xeon E5-2690	8	16	2.9 GHz	20 MB	DDR3-1600	135 Watt

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48 Comments Comment from the forums

sseyler 27 August 2011 05:57

Damn, that's a lot of cache.
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subasteve5800 27 August 2011 05:58

Is anyone else slightly puzzled why the E5-2690 is slower than the E5-2687W? Wouldn't it have made more sense to switch the names?
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dragonsqrrl 27 August 2011 06:09

These processors are going to offer absolutely beastly performance, especially in dual processor configurations. Imagine a tweaked Sandy Bridge architecture, coupled with much more L3 cache, a quad channel memory controller, 40 on die PCIe 3.0 lanes, with 8-cores/16-threads. I can't wait to see the benchmarks later this year, this is going to be epic.
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Eman25th 27 August 2011 06:13

subasteve5800Is anyone else slightly puzzled why the E5-2690 is slower than the E5-2687W? Wouldn't it have made more sense to switch the names? yeah i was thinking the same thing, probably could just buy the faster one and underclock it for the power saving >.>
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silverblue 27 August 2011 06:19

150W?

Having said that, 20MB of L3 is astounding.

Notice this announcement only a short time before Bulldozer is due to arrive (maybe)?
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jprahman 27 August 2011 06:19

Has anyone else noticed theE-2687W with it's 150W TDP?! I mean 20MB L3, 8 Physical and 16 Logical cores, all running at 3.1GHz, I can't imagine that it'll be cheap. I have to admin I agree with ssleyler, I'm somewhat surprised with the extremely large amounts of L3 cache that these chips have. I've heard that with Nahelem Intel engineers used 2MB of L3 per core as a rule of thumb as they believed that it was the optimal amount for best performance, looks like they've decided to go a little above that 2MB/Core figure for Sandy-Bridge-E.
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gmp23 27 August 2011 06:25

I would feel like a dope for upgrading to the i7 2600k a week ago, but the price tag on these babies is going to be ridiculous.
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amk09 27 August 2011 06:29

gmp23I would feel like a dope for upgrading to the i7 2600k a week ago, but the price tag on these babies is going to be ridiculous.
the 2600k will be a top-tier CPU capable of pretty much anything for years to come, you shouldn't feel like a dope at all :)

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greliu 27 August 2011 06:46

These seem like they would be ridiculous lol, but so will the price... I think.
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halcyon 27 August 2011 06:48

I look forward to seeing a Mac Pro with 2x8-core CPUs. The virtual networking I could do would be a lot of fun.
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