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Review of Sandy Bridge-E, cousin of the processor in the next MP
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Nov 14, 2011, 06:33 AM
 
Anandtech, as usual, has a nice review. Note that this is not EXACTLY the processor for the next MP, but it is very close. It is the same die, but with certain features disabled (and I think Xeon E5 will launch with a newer stepping, but don't quote me on that).

Short version is that it's Sandy Bridge 2600K with some more cores and a bigger cache. Nothing earth-shattering, and absolutely zero efficiency improvements, but more cores is always nice.
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Nov 14, 2011, 07:01 AM
 
Yeah, I was reading up on it. Great memory bandwidth and great for highly multi-core functions but no improvement over the 2600K for a great many things.

P, do you think the MP is dead?

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Nov 14, 2011, 08:50 AM
 
I think it gets one last chance. Hopefully with a slight redesign to make it sort-of work in a rack (fit in a rack, but no redundant PSUs etc) and those truly sick memory ceilings that you get with 16 DIMMs. Then I think they will let it be for a LONG time before any more updates, and if there is one for Haswell will depend on sales of that model.
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