Comments on: Recommended Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 Processors for SQL Server

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Wed, 02 May 2018 13:45:39 +0000

With the older Haswell-EP and Broadwell-EP Xeon processors, you will get the best memory performance with one DIMM per memory channel. If you can use large enough DIMMs to be able to do that and have your active workload in the SQL Server Buffer pool, that would be ideal.

Keep in mind that SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition has a license limit of 128GB per instance (plus some more if you are using Columnstore and in-memory OLTP).

By: Devi

Devi — Wed, 02 May 2018 07:36:27 +0000

In reply to Devi.

Regarding memory setup, in one of your articles you mentioned “…. you should choose a memory configuration that only uses one DIMM per memory channel (meaning eight DIMMs total in a two-socket system with two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 family processors).”

In my setup with 2x E5-2637 V3:
1) Is it recommended to setup 16GBs Dimm/channel x 8 Channels = 128GB total memory?
2) Or other options are OK too, for example, 32GBs Dimm/channel x 4 channels = 128GB total (4 Channels free)?

By: Devi

Devi — Tue, 01 May 2018 22:06:01 +0000

In reply to Glenn Berry. Thank you for the confirmation. This is what I was leaning towards. And Many Many Thanks Glenn for being such an amazing resource for everyone in the Database world.

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:10:03 +0000

The Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 will give you much better performance for SQL Server than the other processor. Not to mention that if you are legal with your SQL Server 2016 licenses, the E5-2630 v3 will cost about $15K more for the licenses.

By: Devi

Devi — Tue, 01 May 2018 19:22:50 +0000

In reply to Glenn Berry.

Hi Glenn,

Currently I only have the option between these two processors.

In this setup 1) E5-2630 V3 20M 2.4GHZ x 2 = 16 Cores with 128 GB Memory, the cost is less and I am able to move the Web server to its own dedicated machine E5-2640, 15M Cache, 2.50 GHz 32 GB.

In this setup 2) E5-2637 v3 15M 3.50GHz x 2 = 8 Cores with 128 GB Memory, the Web server is on same machine but I can move over in the future.

Other Details
SQL Server 2016 Standard
Raid 10 HP 300GB 12G SAS 15K
This a API application with a lots of writes…. however daily reports are run on same machine also. (In Current setup, I am facing timeout issues when both happen at same time)

Which would be a better option to go with based on my scenario?

Thanks so much for the feed back.

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Tue, 01 May 2018 13:20:16 +0000

In reply to Devi. The E5-2630 v3 would have about 50% more total CPU capacity, but much lower single-threaded CPU performance. If you really think you need an eight-core CPU, the E5-2667 v3 is a MUCH better choice.

By: Devi

Devi — Tue, 01 May 2018 08:34:27 +0000

Which one is a better performance option?:

1) E5-2630 V3 20M 2.4GHZ x 2 = 16 Cores with 128 GB Memory

2) E5-2637 v3 15M 3.50GHz x 2 = 8 Cores with 128 GB Memory

Will the extra 8 Cores be better (not considering license costs)?

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:43:40 +0000

In reply to Damion Bacchus.

Something like an Intel Xeon E5-1680 v4 would be a decent choice.

http://ark.intel.com/products/92992/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1680-v4-20M-Cache-3_40-GHz

By: Damion Bacchus

Damion Bacchus — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:42:38 +0000

In reply to Damion Bacchus.

e5 1620v4 3.4ghz —— 4c
e5 1630v4 3.7gz 4.0ghz 4c
e5 1650v4 3.6ghz 4.0ghz 6c
e5 1660v4 3.4ghz 3.8ghz 8c
e5 1680v4 3.6ghz 4.0ghz 8c

10m cache for all.

By: Damion Bacchus

Damion Bacchus — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:28:03 +0000

Hi, as a current up and coming it technician i would like to know why the e5 1000v4 series is not included in this list?
the e5 1220,1230,1250, 1260, 1280. lowest base frequency amoung them is 3.4,ghz, highet 4.0. they are single socket only so no scalability, Vms solve that imo. i want to know because i want to build an eccomerce market for my xoutry i want to start with a budget of 4000 for thr server, 800 for my vm host, and 500 for a client pc. it is an mini ecfommerce site by comparism to amazon. Hopefully 9000 total accounts, 50-500 visits a day 3-4 years after launch.