The new line of single-socket servers Dell Poweredge R360 and Dell Poweredge T360 with processors is Intel Xeon E-24xx. Processors use the LGA 1700 socket, which appeared two generations of Intel Core ago. The processors are manufactured using the Intel 7 (10nm) technology process, have 4 to 8 cores, a DDR5 memory controller with two channels, two DDR5-4800 UDIMM ECC modules per channel, a total of four memory slots with a total capacity of up to 128 GB. The processors support 16 PCIe Gen 5 lanes and 4 PCIe Gen 4 lanes. The chipset adds PCIe lanes, USB and SATA ports. There are eight denominations in the Xeon E-24xx line. All of them, except the youngest, support Hyper-Threading, providing two threads per core. The base frequency of the cores is from 2.6 to 3.5 GHz, Turbo Boost can push the clock frequency of the core to 4.5 - 5.6 GHz.
Comparison table of Xeon E processor generations over the last three generations
Clock frequency
From the point of view of the balance of price and performance per core, the Xeon E-24xx are more attractive than the Xeon SP 4 th processors Gen - because their clock frequencies are much higher. Typical junior server applications are more sensitive to clock speed than memory capacity or memory and I/O bandwidth. In addition, Xeon E satellite odoprocessor platforms are much cheaper than any Xeon SP platforms. It is good if eight physical cores are enough for the server owner.
The base frequency of the processor cores of the Xeon E-22xx generation reached 4.0 GHz, the Xeon E-23xx – 3.7 GHz. The Xeon E-24xx has a maximum of 3.5 GHz. Everything is lower and lower. Of course, you can't compare processors by a single parameter, especially different architectures, but you can't fool physics. A high clock frequency directly affects the performance of single-threaded applications: accounting programs, web services, database servers, design, network monitoring programs, etc. On the contrary, the advantages of DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 will most likely not be felt by users of entry-level servers.
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