Table 1: Intel E5-2600 v2 Series Model Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a little suspicious of the core count and L3 cache size for the Xeon E5-2643 v2. I think it is more likely to have eight physical cores and a 20MB L3 cache based on it\u2019s base clock speed. Even though the Ivy Bridge-EP core counts are up to 50% higher than the 32nm Xeon E5-2600 series, the TDP ratings are about the same, which shows the benefits of moving to a smaller 22nm manufacturing process. The only low-power SKU in the lineup is Xeon E5-2650L v2. It has ten CPU cores, a 1.7 GHz base clock speed, and a 70 Watt TDP rating. It would not be a good choice for SQL Server, since you give up a significant amount of performance to save perhaps 20-30 watts of electrical usage per processor. The Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors are supposed to have two QPI 1.1 links, up to 40 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 interface, and a 4-channel DDR3 memory controller that supports DDR3-1866 memory.<\/p>\n

You should be able to get an existing model server with these processors sometime in July. Getting a two-socket system with two Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 processors will be a pretty compelling choice for a lot of SQL Server 2012\/2014 workloads. I predict we will see TPC-E scores in the 2500-2600 range for that type of system, which compares quite well to a four-socket, Intel E7-4870 system that would cost twice as much for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise core licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More details about the upcoming 22nm Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors (aka Ivy Bridge-EP) are starting to leak out. Initially, we will see the single-socket Xeon E5-1600 v2 series and the two-socket Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors, that share the 22nm Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. They use the same LGA2011 socket as the current 32nm E5-1600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,106,24],"tags":[167,332],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-hardware","category-intel","category-ivy-bridge-ep","category-processors","tag-intel-xeon-e5-2600-v2-series","tag-ivy-bridge-ep"],"yoast_head":"\n