ivy bridge 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP engineering sample tested

[Phouchg]

So an Ivy Bridge-EP walks into a bar :rolleyes:

The Ivy Bridge LGA1155 processors inbound for April are mom and pop PC chips in front of the monstrosities Intel has planned for the enterprise (and possibly high-end desktop/HEDT) markets, based on the architecture. An 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP engineering sample, made it to the right hands in Taiwan (wrong hands for Intel), that wasted no time in putting them through some tests.

The 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP/EX chip (LGA2011, 2P-capable) features 10 next-generation cores clocked at 2.80 GHz, with 256 KB L2 cache per core, 30 MB shared L3 cache, and HyperThreading technology that enables 20 logical CPUs. This chip crunched WPrime 1024M in 158.5 seconds, and scores 41.78X relative speed in Fritz chess when just 8 of its 20 threads are put to use. You can also find some pretty screen shots of CPU-Z with its long processor selection list and Windows 8 task manager.

Source in English (techpowerup.com)

Source in Chinese (coolaler.com; requires registration)

[Billmaster]

Do want

[streetw0lf]

Do want.... to go broke.

[Blaze_Zewi]

:drool:

[Ci7]

we went B2 variant!

[+John Teacake MVC]

Anyone else Notice 32Bit version :-( And 1GB Ram? And Logical Processors 320? :-S

[Rudy]

Oh wow :D

[Ci7]

Anyone else Notice 32Bit version :-( And 1GB Ram? And Logical Processors 320? :-S

where did you notice 32bit? os string/stamp?

[a1ien]

Anyone else Notice 32Bit version :-( And 1GB Ram? And Logical Processors 320? :-S

The second screenshot claims 1TB ram and I don't see how it can be 32 bit. There's 20 logical processors... can anyone tell why there are 16x as many 'logical procesors'?

[Phouchg]

I have failed to verify the validity of the second pic, therefore I have now removed it. My apologies.

While 1 TB of RAM is possible with one of the latest Intel server boards, 20 physical processors (meaning 20 sockets) is not.

In the first pic Cpumark99 is 32-bit because it's from 1999 - the other version is 16-bit. It's sometimes used as a single-threaded benchmark of raw power.

[Ci7]

The second screenshot claims 1TB ram and I don't see how it can be 32 bit. There's 20 logical processors... can anyone tell why there are 16x as many 'logical procesors'?

you got it wrong it is 20 physhical processor

but not sure where 320 core figure come from (20 physhical processor * 20 logical processor[include HT cores] ) that is give out 400 cores!1!!!!!

edit

the screenshot is missed up after second look !!!

well done taking it down

Edited February 15, 2012 by Ci7

[IceBreakerG]

If only I'd be able to justifiably be able to afford one of these. And by that, I mean the amount this processor will probably cost will probably exceed my entire Ivy Bridge system build.

[AJerman]

Nice, these make my E5-2680s look like nothin!

[Vice]

Although these chips are very impressive I'm much more looking forward to picking up cheaper 1366 6 core XEON's once these new ones make the older ones obsolete. Intel's monopoly makes their multi-socket system processors way too expensive.

[Dotdot]

........drool.

[Alladaskill17]

"This chip crunched WPrime 1024M in 158.5 seconds, and scores 41.78X relative speed in Fritz chess when just 8 of its 20 threads are put to use." Ok, I get the part where only 8/20 being used, so the #s must be good. But can someone explain the bolded part to me?

[Phouchg]

"This chip crunched WPrime 1024M in 158.5 seconds, and scores 41.78X relative speed in Fritz chess when just 8 of its 20 threads are put to use." Ok, I get the part where only 8/20 being used, so the #s must be good. But can someone explain the bolded part to me?

WPrime crunches square roots of numbers on an arbitrary amount of threads (amount of physical cores by default). Loads them to mostly constant 100% and does not fry the crap out of them (like, e.g., Prime95). However, according to HWBot, such a score for a 10-core 2.8 GHz processor actually really sucks. Only possible explanation I could think of is that Windows 8 being "alpha version" slows it down.

[Alladaskill17]

WPrime crunches square roots of numbers on an arbitrary amount of threads (amount of physical cores by default). Loads them to mostly constant 100% and does not fry the crap out of them (like, e.g., Prime95). However, according to HWBot, such a score for a 10-core 2.8 GHz processor actually really sucks. Only possible explanation I could think of is that Windows 8 being "alpha version" slows it down.

Thank you, very informative post. So, why all the "drooling" in this thread if the score sucks? Don't get me wrong I want Ivy Bridge to be fantastic and a worthwhile all around improvement as I am hoping to upgrade my 2008 MacBook Pro later this year, but I'd love to know if these are going to be a significant improvement; cannot really wait for...Haswell? or whatever it is after Ivy on the roadmap.

[Phouchg]

To be fair, I think people just read "10 coarsh" - zomg! - and everything turns hazy after that :D

Nothing that crazy actually, it's Xeon after all; "Xeon" as in "not for our wallets", I might add. There already are several Westmere-EX Xeons with 10 cores. Ivy Bridge-EP just enables raising clocks and putting them in a consumer board.

I'm starting to think that the whole thing may be bogus. Because SuperPi, on the other hand, is close to a world record (of heavily overclocked systems).

The problem is that this thing has been reported quite a lot on the internets and no one seems to mind very much. It's very confusing...

[AJerman]

To be fair, I think people just read "10 coarsh" - zomg! - and everything turns hazy after that :D

Nothing that crazy actually, it's Xeon after all; "Xeon" as in "not for our wallets", I might add. There already are several Westmere-EX Xeons with 10 cores. Ivy Bridge-EP just enables raising clocks and putting them in a consumer board.

I'm starting to think that the whole thing may be bogus. Because SuperPi, on the other hand, is close to a world record (of heavily overclocked systems).

The problem is that this thing has been reported quite a lot on the internets and no one seems to mind very much. It's very confusing...

Oh yeah, I've got a bunch of machines using 10 core Westmere chips. 10 core isn't that big of a deal. I'd actually still be surprised if any Ivy Bridge 10 core chips end up in desktop CPUs, but that remains to be seen. The bigger deal is the 22 nm fab with 3d tri-gate transistors. More speed, less power! The TDP on Ivy Bridge chips is very low compared to Nehalem and Sandy Bridge chips. I'd like to see how this unannounced 10 core chip stacks up.

Don't get too caught up in benchmarks. These benchmarks are in no way optimized for a chip that's barely seen the light of day.