Two 22 Core Xeon CPUs!? - HOLY $H!T Episode 6
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,318 words · ~11 min read
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so Intel just launched their brand new code name Broadwell EP based zons I mean
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these things are bananas the top ofth line one has 22 cores 45 Megs of cash a
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quad Channel ddr4 memory controller and best of all did I mention that we've
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already got one no I didn't because that
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description now as impressive as the E5
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2699 V4 might be under the hood CPUs are
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never really much to look at physically but that won't stop us from
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investigating some of the differences between this and the older haswell-based
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V3 processors so first of all they've redesigned the heat spreader I don't
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know exactly what the engineering reason for these little flanges that come out
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into the corners are but if I had to guess I would say it would be to
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transfer the compact pressure of the CPU heat sink onto the pads and the pins in
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the socket below more evenly and then the other thing that they've changed is
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it no longer overhangs the socket and
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it's actually closer to the size of a desktop chip than the previous Zeon were
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with these like Ultra super mega wide heat spreaders on them now there are
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some similarities here and this will be good news for high-end desktop
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Enthusiast users or workstation users who are not necessarily going to drop I
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think this one's like $4500 on a 22 core model but might be
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interested in a high core count model and that is that it uses the same 2011
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contact pads on the bottom and is therefore socket compatible with LGA
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20113 meaning that as long as your motherboard maker provides a BIOS update
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this will be a dropin replacement for the older v3s and even desktop
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processors assuming you've got a board that will support it so naturally then
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the first thing I'm going to do is throw it on my gaming desktop test bench and
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see how it goes but before we do that I
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want to get some oh did I just die that was quick and anyway before we do that I
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want to get some baseline numbers on a 5960x extreme Edition desktop processor
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so we have something to compare this brand new top-of-the-line 22 core
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against Benchmark wise I'll be doing a very very limited set so we'll be
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running Crisis 3 to represent gaming we'll be running cinebench as well as W
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Prime so with our Baseline numbers run all that's left to do is find out if our
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motherboard has a BIOS update we can't
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tell because ASUS and for everyone for that matters BIOS update release notes
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are notoriously terrible so all we can do now is update to the latest one tear
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the system apart and give it a shot all right moment of
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truth yeah uh this is not looking like it is
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going to work we're getting a post code 53 maybe it will
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change and no but that's okay because
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this is just a minor setback Broadwell e
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the Enthusiast desktop equivalent for Broadwell EP is not set to land for
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however long I actually have no idea so it makes sense I guess that some of the
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more desktop oriented boards would not have Broadwell EP support but that's
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okay because we have a system that definitely does
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this is eight Gamers 1 CPU the Michael
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Bay style sequel to seven Gamers 1 CPU
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it's bigger it's better it's better and it's also deceptively named because in
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addition to actually running two CPUs because come on quite frankly if you've
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got a workload that can benefit from 22 cores and 44 threads did I mention that
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CP hyperthreading then you've probably got a workload that can benefit from 44
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cores and 88 thread so we're going to be using this bad boy to deceptively put
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two CPUs in and also deceptively run up
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to 10 gaming VMS but it's going to be a
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little bit different because this chassis supports and you'll see here
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hopefully there we go
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supports eight video cards in it sort of
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advertised configuration but thanks to to its 11 PCI e6x slots on board 10 GB
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networking dual 10 gbit networking I am planning to put an additional two cards
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in here to hopefully get 10 gaming VMS
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running and streaming using steam in home streaming to 10 different clients
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all over the building instead of having everyone Tethered to the system this
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time so all we've got to do then is apply the latest BIOS update and throw
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the CPUs in here for our testing but before we put the 22 cores
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in that machine I actually had to pull out the 8 Zotac gtx980 TI amps and
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replace them with just one Titan X so I could get an Apples to Apples comparison
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against my top-of-the-line desktop 5960x the cool thing here is that this
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is 218 course the previous Flagship before that the flagship E5 was a 12
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core we actually have one of those in Ed's machine maybe let me know in the
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com comments if you'd like to see a generation by generation comparison
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there and so we've gone from 12 to 18 to
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now 22 cores but and this is really
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interesting the 2699 V4 that we have
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actually has 24 physical cores on it meaning that if they were to create an
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additional 24 core skew and yields improve or whatever they potentially
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could which is pretty cool so we ran through the same benchmarks chis of 3
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Center bench and W Prime but it should be noted at this time that W Prime no
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matter how many threads I set it to isn't really scaling so I might just
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leave that out so with that out of the way then all right let's put some 22
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core CPUs in here let's Lock and
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Load Here We Go 44
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oh dang it doesn't matter how
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experienced I get at this stuff I still forget to plug in the
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power supply
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sometimes okay try that
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again Lock and Load 44
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cores hilariously that's not nearly as loud as it was when we had the default
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fans in here I actually posted a uh a periscope stream of me turning it on for
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the first time it was
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deafening please turn
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on oh
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hello hey hey wow that was the longest
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post I've ever seen in my
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life okay then let's uh get into the BIOS here what the hell was
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that it's like they want me to have a freaking heart
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attack 44 core machine not turning
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on jeez why is it that my stress is your
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entertainment Hey where's my bio
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screen okay so that's it video
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card is still detected all good in the
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hood wow that my friends is what 40 4 cores
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88 threads looks
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like just like that stock speed of this
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puppy actually not much higher than the previous one in fact I think it's a
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touch lower but you do get architectural improvements from going from Haswell to
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Broadwell for the microarchitecture of the CPU
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itself um and let's see what that
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translates to so we'll fire up uh let's
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do C bench is our first run here cuz I guarantee
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you none if or almost none if any of you
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have ever seen a cine bench run that looks like
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this and
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done over 5,000 points 50
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24 unfreaking
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real I certainly have never seen anything like it let's run it again just
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cuz Hey it doesn't take very long
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right so CPU usage 100% across 44 cores
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88 threads yeah whatever no big
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deal but can it run crisis only one way
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to find out okay so while I haven't run the Benchmark yet I think I can say with
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a fair degree of certainty that yes yes it can because all tabbing out reveals
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that Crisis 3 is utilizing
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5.6% of this CPU six C oh sorry 6 point 6.4 is what
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we peaked at there well whoa how is that even
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possible okay it's actually using a reasonable amount of it you can see most
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of it's on this one random core right here but uh there are some other other
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cor oh and it fell back down again all right so let's do this let's run the
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bench can it run
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crisis I don't know what crisis 3's music sounds like die you can die too
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you can die too just jump over this thing I kind of screwed up my jump there
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that's okay boom so all that's left now
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is a bit of a wrap up yes it can play crisis it's a silly question of course
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it can it's got about the power of multiples of our highest end desktop
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processor in it but it's only really truly utilized in more multi-threaded
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workloads like for example cin bench that is highend 3D rendering or in a
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heavily virtualized environment like what I have planned for it in terms of
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power consumption and temperatures once again I'm impressed in spite of the 22
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cores under the hood our total system power consumption at idle is around 200
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Watts remember that includes those beefy fans over there and our load power
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consumption is around 500 watts with ID to 64 running Full Tilt in the
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background let's go ahead and pull that up and our load temperatures even with
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these goofy coolers I mean they're good coolers but they're not amazing is under
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50 degrees it does help to be able to
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spread out the cores when you've got lots and lots of cores you have a larger
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heat source so it's a little bit easier for the heat to
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transfer so I think that pretty much wraps it up what was the point of this
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video Well Point number one is holy [ __ ] that's cool Point number two is that
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while this is not something you're going to be running in your desktop you know
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now the thing to not about these kinds of Technology showcases is that all this
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stuff eventually does trickle down I mean remember 12 core like two and a
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half years ago was the topof the line for servers and now the rumor is that
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Broadwell e the desktop version of this is going to have a 10 Core Extreme
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