so Intel just launched their brand new code name Broadwell EP based zons I mean
these things are bananas the top ofth line one has 22 cores 45 Megs of cash a
quad Channel ddr4 memory controller and best of all did I mention that we've
already got one no I didn't because that
would be a lie we have
two
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description now as impressive as the E5
2699 V4 might be under the hood CPUs are
never really much to look at physically but that won't stop us from
investigating some of the differences between this and the older haswell-based
V3 processors so first of all they've redesigned the heat spreader I don't
know exactly what the engineering reason for these little flanges that come out
into the corners are but if I had to guess I would say it would be to
transfer the compact pressure of the CPU heat sink onto the pads and the pins in
the socket below more evenly and then the other thing that they've changed is
it no longer overhangs the socket and
it's actually closer to the size of a desktop chip than the previous Zeon were
with these like Ultra super mega wide heat spreaders on them now there are
some similarities here and this will be good news for high-end desktop
Enthusiast users or workstation users who are not necessarily going to drop I
think this one's like $4500 on a 22 core model but might be
interested in a high core count model and that is that it uses the same 2011
contact pads on the bottom and is therefore socket compatible with LGA
20113 meaning that as long as your motherboard maker provides a BIOS update
this will be a dropin replacement for the older v3s and even desktop
processors assuming you've got a board that will support it so naturally then
the first thing I'm going to do is throw it on my gaming desktop test bench and
see how it goes but before we do that I
want to get some oh did I just die that was quick and anyway before we do that I
want to get some baseline numbers on a 5960x extreme Edition desktop processor
so we have something to compare this brand new top-of-the-line 22 core
against Benchmark wise I'll be doing a very very limited set so we'll be
running Crisis 3 to represent gaming we'll be running cinebench as well as W
Prime so with our Baseline numbers run all that's left to do is find out if our
motherboard has a BIOS update we can't
tell because ASUS and for everyone for that matters BIOS update release notes
are notoriously terrible so all we can do now is update to the latest one tear
the system apart and give it a shot all right moment of
truth yeah uh this is not looking like it is
going to work we're getting a post code 53 maybe it will
change and no but that's okay because
this is just a minor setback Broadwell e
the Enthusiast desktop equivalent for Broadwell EP is not set to land for
however long I actually have no idea so it makes sense I guess that some of the
more desktop oriented boards would not have Broadwell EP support but that's
okay because we have a system that definitely does
this is eight Gamers 1 CPU the Michael
Bay style sequel to seven Gamers 1 CPU
it's bigger it's better it's better and it's also deceptively named because in
addition to actually running two CPUs because come on quite frankly if you've
got a workload that can benefit from 22 cores and 44 threads did I mention that
CP hyperthreading then you've probably got a workload that can benefit from 44
cores and 88 thread so we're going to be using this bad boy to deceptively put
two CPUs in and also deceptively run up
to 10 gaming VMS but it's going to be a
little bit different because this chassis supports and you'll see here
hopefully there we go
supports eight video cards in it sort of
advertised configuration but thanks to to its 11 PCI e6x slots on board 10 GB
networking dual 10 gbit networking I am planning to put an additional two cards
in here to hopefully get 10 gaming VMS
running and streaming using steam in home streaming to 10 different clients
all over the building instead of having everyone Tethered to the system this
time so all we've got to do then is apply the latest BIOS update and throw
the CPUs in here for our testing but before we put the 22 cores
in that machine I actually had to pull out the 8 Zotac gtx980 TI amps and
replace them with just one Titan X so I could get an Apples to Apples comparison
against my top-of-the-line desktop 5960x the cool thing here is that this
is 218 course the previous Flagship before that the flagship E5 was a 12
core we actually have one of those in Ed's machine maybe let me know in the
com comments if you'd like to see a generation by generation comparison
there and so we've gone from 12 to 18 to
now 22 cores but and this is really
interesting the 2699 V4 that we have
actually has 24 physical cores on it meaning that if they were to create an
additional 24 core skew and yields improve or whatever they potentially
could which is pretty cool so we ran through the same benchmarks chis of 3
Center bench and W Prime but it should be noted at this time that W Prime no
matter how many threads I set it to isn't really scaling so I might just
leave that out so with that out of the way then all right let's put some 22
core CPUs in here let's Lock and
Load Here We Go 44
oh dang it doesn't matter how
experienced I get at this stuff I still forget to plug in the
power supply
sometimes okay try that
again Lock and Load 44
cores hilariously that's not nearly as loud as it was when we had the default
fans in here I actually posted a uh a periscope stream of me turning it on for
the first time it was
deafening please turn
on oh
hello hey hey wow that was the longest
post I've ever seen in my
life okay then let's uh get into the BIOS here what the hell was
that it's like they want me to have a freaking heart
attack 44 core machine not turning
on jeez why is it that my stress is your
entertainment Hey where's my bio
screen okay so that's it video
card is still detected all good in the
hood wow that my friends is what 40 4 cores
88 threads looks
like just like that stock speed of this
puppy actually not much higher than the previous one in fact I think it's a
touch lower but you do get architectural improvements from going from Haswell to
Broadwell for the microarchitecture of the CPU
itself um and let's see what that
translates to so we'll fire up uh let's
do C bench is our first run here cuz I guarantee
you none if or almost none if any of you
have ever seen a cine bench run that looks like
this and
done over 5,000 points 50
24 unfreaking
real I certainly have never seen anything like it let's run it again just
cuz Hey it doesn't take very long
right so CPU usage 100% across 44 cores
88 threads yeah whatever no big
deal but can it run crisis only one way
to find out okay so while I haven't run the Benchmark yet I think I can say with
a fair degree of certainty that yes yes it can because all tabbing out reveals
that Crisis 3 is utilizing
5.6% of this CPU six C oh sorry 6 point 6.4 is what
we peaked at there well whoa how is that even
possible okay it's actually using a reasonable amount of it you can see most
of it's on this one random core right here but uh there are some other other
cor oh and it fell back down again all right so let's do this let's run the
bench can it run
crisis I don't know what crisis 3's music sounds like die you can die too
you can die too just jump over this thing I kind of screwed up my jump there
that's okay boom so all that's left now
is a bit of a wrap up yes it can play crisis it's a silly question of course
it can it's got about the power of multiples of our highest end desktop
processor in it but it's only really truly utilized in more multi-threaded
workloads like for example cin bench that is highend 3D rendering or in a
heavily virtualized environment like what I have planned for it in terms of
power consumption and temperatures once again I'm impressed in spite of the 22
cores under the hood our total system power consumption at idle is around 200
Watts remember that includes those beefy fans over there and our load power
consumption is around 500 watts with ID to 64 running Full Tilt in the
background let's go ahead and pull that up and our load temperatures even with
these goofy coolers I mean they're good coolers but they're not amazing is under
50 degrees it does help to be able to
spread out the cores when you've got lots and lots of cores you have a larger
heat source so it's a little bit easier for the heat to
transfer so I think that pretty much wraps it up what was the point of this
video Well Point number one is holy [ __ ] that's cool Point number two is that
while this is not something you're going to be running in your desktop you know
now the thing to not about these kinds of Technology showcases is that all this
stuff eventually does trickle down I mean remember 12 core like two and a
half years ago was the topof the line for servers and now the rumor is that
Broadwell e the desktop version of this is going to have a 10 Core Extreme
Edition so uh there you go it's a sight
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