Intel Introduces Xeon E7 v4 Line of Processors

Intel has expanded its range of Xeon processors with the Xeon E7 v4 line. The company mainly focuses on real-time analytics applications with the Broadwell-EX platform. The processors support more memory than their predecessors and have more cache.

The v4 line is based on the Broadwell architecture and is produced at 14nm. Intel has divided the new E7 v4 family into an 8800 and a 4800 line. Among other things, the new generation supports up to 3TB of memory per socket and up to 60MB of last-level cache. Compared to the v3 line, up to 24 cores per socket are now supported instead of 18 cores. The chips are socket compatible with the E7 v3 line of the Brickland platform.

Compared to a Xeon E7-8890 v3, the Xeon E7-8890 v4 would support 33 percent more benchmark users for SAP’s sales & distribution ERP workloads, and the processor would also provide a 30 percent increase in online transaction processing, according to benchmarks from Intel itself. .

The processors can be placed in four- and eight-socket systems and according to Intel, in combination with third-party node controllers, there is support for 64 sockets. With an eight-socket system, up to 24TB of RAM is possible, and those amounts lend themselves perfectly to real-time data analysis, according to the chip company, since large data sets can reside entirely in the RAM instead of on slower storage media.