Intel’s Broadwell-EP Lineup Leaked – Several Xeon E5-2600 V4 Series Chips Detailed
The leaked information consists of details about 12 upcoming, Xeon E5-2600 V4 processors (branded under the Broadwell-EP family). These include the flagship Xeon E5-2699 V4 processor which packs insane specs and offer up to 22 cores to users who demand that kind of performance for the respective workloads in the workstation market. The list of these processors can be found below (Do note that there could be more SKUs in the line up that we don’t know about but the ones listed below are confirmed):
- Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2698 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2697 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2695 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2690 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2689 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2687 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2678 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2666 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2660 V4
- Intel Xeon E5-2650 V4
The top brass in the Broadwell-EP family consists of the Xeon E5-2699 V4 and the Xeon E5-2698 V4 processors which feature improved specifications over their predecessors in terms of core count. First up, we are looking at the flagship offering in the family known as the Xeon E5-2699 V4 which features the highest core count Intel has offered to date. With 22 cores and a multi-threaded design offering 44 threads, the chip packs insane CPU performance. With 2.5 MB cache scattered across each core, the die packs 55 MB L3 cache and is clocked at a range of 2.2 GHz base clock and up to 3.6 GHz boost clock. The entire chip has a TDP of 145W with workstation offerings of the chip going up to 160W.
The Xeon E5-2698 V4 processor features a core clock of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock of 3.5 GHz across 20 cores which are hyper-threaded down to 40 threads. The CPU block is partitioned into several cache blocks with each core housing 2.5 MB L3 cache which equals a total of 50 MB L3 cache on this processor. The maximum core clock is suggested around 3.5 GHz (boost) while the chip has a TDP range of 135W. Compared to the E5-2698 V3 which had 16 cores, 32 threads, 40 MB L3 cache and a core clock ranging from 2.3 GHz to 3.6 GHz, the V4 is an incremental increase since it’s also based on an improved 14 nm process node. Both processors will be able to support DDR4 (Quad Channel) memory with speeds of (up to) 2400 MHz. Details for the remaining chips are not fully disclosed but some bits and pieces are known which can be seen in the table posted below.