Xeon Phi 7290 vs E5-2630 v4

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking979not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.21no data
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesIntel Xeon E5no data
Power efficiency8.12no data
Architecture codenameBroadwell (2015−2019)Knights Landing (2016)
Release date20 June 2016 (8 years ago)20 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$667no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores10 (Deca-Core)72 (Doheptaconta-Core)
Threads20288
Base clock speed2.2 GHz1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed3.1 GHz1.7 GHz
Bus typeQPIno data
Bus rate2 × 8 GT/sno data
Multiplier22no data
L1 cacheno data32 KB (per core)
L2 cache2.5 MB512 KB (per core)
L3 cache25 MB0 KB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size246.24 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature74 °Cno data
Number of transistors3200 Million8,000 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration2 (Multiprocessor)1
SocketFCLGA20113647
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt245 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX2no data
AES-NI++
AVX++
vPro++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
TSX+-
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access-no data
Demand Based Switching+no data
PAE46 Bitno data

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-1600, DDR4-1866, DDR4-2133DDR4
Maximum memory size1.5 TBno data
Max memory channels4no data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.3 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2630 v4 and Xeon Phi 7290.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes40no data

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 10 72
Threads 20 288
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 245 Watt

Xeon E5-2630 v4 has 188.2% lower power consumption.

Xeon Phi 7290, on the other hand, has 620% more physical cores and 1340% more threads.

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