AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
If you examine the CPU industry and ask where the big money is, you have to look at the server and datacenter market. Ever since the Opteron days, AMD's...
184 by on 8/7/2019
Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake vs. NVIDIA Turing: An Analysis in AI
It seems like the new motto for Silicon Valley for the last few years has been “Data is the new oil,” and for good reason. The number of companies...
56 by on 7/29/2019
Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by on 5/23/2018
Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis
Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD's technical marketing of the new CPU has been surprisingly absent, as the company not published...
105 by on 11/28/2017
Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 - The Server CPU Battle of the Decade?
This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the "Skylake-SP" architecture...
219 by on 7/11/2017
AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 SoC Begins Sampling: A Step in ARM's 2017 Server Ambitions
There has been a lot of recent movement in the ARM Server SoC space, with three major players. The third player, AppliedMicro, has been acquired by MACOM. MACOM has...
24 by on 3/15/2017
The OpenPOWER Saga Continues: Can You Get POWER Inside 1U?
When we saw that Tyan made a 1U server based upon this Habanero platform, that caught our eye. The power-hungry POWER8 inside a density optimized form factor? And they...
28 by on 2/24/2017
OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces in the Heterogenous Computing Era
Some of you may remember AMD announcing the "Torrenza" technology 10 years ago. The idea was to offer a fast and coherent interface between the CPU and various types...
49 by on 10/14/2016
New ARM IP Launched: CMN-600 Interconnect for 128 Cores and DMC-620, an 8Ch DDR4 IMC
You need much more than a good CPU core to conquer the server world. As more cores are added, the way data moves from one part of the silicon...
14 by on 9/27/2016
Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 2: Server Applications on OpenPOWER
In this second part of our ongoing OpenPOWER coverage, we are taking a look at how the midrange IBM POWER8 compares to Intel's Xeon in applications that matter: Java...
49 by on 9/15/2016
Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
A few months ago, IBM brought the relatively cheap S812LC server to the market, making sure the IBM POWER8 is within the budget of almost every datacenter. In this...
124 by on 7/21/2016
Investigating Cavium's ThunderX: The First ARM Server SoC With Ambition
Today we're taking a look at Cavium's ThunderX, a highly integrated ARMv8 server SoC with 48 cores and lots of I/O. With the ThunderX, Cavium is looking to challenge...
82 by on 6/15/2016
The Intel Xeon E5 v4 Review: Testing Broadwell-EP With Demanding Server Workloads
Fifteen months after first reaching consumers, Broadwell has finally arrived in the server space with Broadwell-EP. Premiering with the Xeon E5 v4 family, Intel is now offering server processors...
112 by on 3/31/2016
The Silver Lining of the Late AMD Opteron A1100 Arrival
AMD announced their ARM server SoC plans at the end of 2012. At the beginning of 2014, AMD was ready "to accelerate the ARM Server Ecosystem with the first...
37 by on 1/14/2016
The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
We recently got our hands on a S822L, an dual socket OpenPOWER server. IBM claims that this is an affordable, high performance and highly expandable alternative to the typical...
146 by on 11/6/2015
The Intel Xeon D Review: Performance Per Watt Server SoC Champion?
Eight 14nm Broadwell cores, a shared L3-cache, dual 10 gigabit MAC, a PCIe 3.0 root with 24 lanes and a lot more find a home in Intel's most powerful...
90 by on 6/23/2015
IBM Pairs Xilinx FPGAs to POWER8 to Create an Education Cloud Service
Today IBM has announced "SuperVessel", an OpenStack based cloud service that enables students and developers to develop applications on a POWER 8 based infrastructure. What makes this cloud service...
25 by on 6/10/2015
Xeon E3-1200 V4 launch: only with GPU integrated
Intel's server CPU portfolio just got more diversified and complex with the launch of the Intel Xeon E3-1200 V4 at Computex 2015. It is basically the same chip...
55 by on 6/3/2015
The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
The story behind the high-end Xeon has been the same for the past 5 years: Intel's most expensive beats the Oracle alternative in every way you can look at...
146 by on 5/8/2015
X-Gene 1, Atom C2000 and Xeon E3: Exploring the Scale-Out Server World
Most of our attention with servers has gone to the midrange (Xeon E5, Opteron 6300) and high-end (Xeon E7) platforms. But the low-end and micro server market is where...
47 by on 3/9/2015
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