Intel Xeon Processor E7-4800/8800 V2 Product Family - IBM x3850 X6 Planning And Implementation Manual

2.3.1 Intel Xeon processor E7-4800/8800 v2 product family

There are two groups of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family that are used in the X6 servers
and support scaling to separate levels:
The Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 v2 product family is used in the x3850 X6. This family
supports four-processor configurations.
The Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v2 product family is used in the x3950 X6 to scale to
eight-socket configurations.
The X6 systems support the latest generation of the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 v2 and
E7-8800 v2 product family, which offers the following key features:
Up to 15 cores and 30 threads (using Hyper-Threading feature) per processor
Up to 37.5 MB of L3 cache
Up to 3.4 GHz core frequencies
Up to 8 GT/s bandwidth of QPI links
Integrated memory controller with four SMI2 channels that support up to 24 DDR3 DIMMs
Up to 1600 MHz DDR3 memory speeds and up to 2667 MHz SMI link speeds
Integrated PCIe 3.0 controller with 32 lanes per processor
Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x and VT-d)
Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVT)
Intel AES-NI instructions for accelerating of encryption
Advanced QPI and memory reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features
Machine Check Architecture recovery (non-execution and execution paths)
Enhanced Machine Check Architecture Gen1
Machine Check Architecture I/O
Security technologies: OS Guard, Secure Key, Intel TXT
Table 2-1 compares the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800/8800 v2 product families used in X6
systems with the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800/8800 product families that are used in IBM
eX5 servers.
Table 2-1 eX5 and X6 processors comparisons
Feature
Processor family
Processor codenames
Cores per CPU
Last level cache
QPI
CPU TDP rating
DIMM sockets
Maximum memory speeds
PCIe technology
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eX5 family
Intel Xeon E7-8800
Intel Xeon E7-4800
Westmere EX
Up to 10 cores
Up to 30 MB L3 cache
QPI 1.0 at 6.4 GT/s max
Up to 130W
16 DIMMs per CPU
1067 MHz DDR3
PCIe 2.0 (5 GT/s)
X6 family
Intel Xeon E7-8800 v2
Intel Xeon E7-4800 v2
Ivy Bridge EX
Up to 15 cores
Up to 37.5 MB L3 cache
QPI 1.1 at 8.0 GT/s max
Up to 155W
24 DIMMs per CPU
2667 MHz SMI2
PCIe 3.0 (8 GT/s)