Intel Sandy Bridge-EP discussed

Posted on Thursday, July 28 2011 @ 21:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel's Sandy Bridge-EP arrives late this year to take on AMD's Bulldozer in 2 and 4-socket servers. It offers up to 8 cores with a new system architecture including 20MB L3 cache, 4 DDR3 memory controllers and faster 8GT/s QPI 1.1 links. Sandy Bridge-EP is also the first server CPU to integrate PCI-E 3.0 on-die, with up to 40 lanes - a significant bandwidth and power efficiency advantage.

This article compares the system architecture and design to previous approaches and shows that Sandy Bridge-EP will be a compelling upgrade for 2-socket servers and attractive for certain 4-socket systems, particularly those with large I/O needs. Learn more at RealWorldTech.


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