From PC World: Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products to take advantage.
Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have announced faster servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips based on the Broadwell architecture. The chips have up to 22 cores and are significantly faster than the Haswell-based Xeon E5-2600 v3, which shipped last year.
Dell measured a 28 percent improvement in server application performance based on SAP benchmarks on the new chips, compared to performance with the Haswell server chips. Lenovo benchmarks showed a 44 percent CPU improvement. Benchmark results vary depending on the application.
The chips can be slotted into existing servers that have the Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor. Intel made the new chips socket compatible so companies wouldn't have to purchase new servers. Many servers announced on Thursday are incremental upgrades with the same sockets but the new chips.
Intel had to compromise on some chip improvements to ensure the new chips were compatible with current technologies in servers. Intel didn't make major Ethernet, storage or I/O upgrades. Upgrades to technologies like Intel's emerging OmniPath interconnect -- which link up a multitude of memory, processing, storage and networking units -- will be available with a separate add-on card.
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