Intel pushes Tigerton launch forward

Sledgehammer70

With news that AMD's Barcelona might pack more of a punch than Intel's offering, now would be an opportune moment to highlight that Intel is moving forward with its next core update, Tigerton, which is a Xeon MP processor. This chip will compete head to head with AMD's Barcelona in 4-CPU server setups.

Intel's Tigerton will launch an X7350 running 2.93GHz @ 130W with an 8MB cache, and a 50W L7345 at 1.86GHz/50W/8MB. The rest are 80W parts: the E7340, 2.40/8MB and three with 4MB caches at 2.40, 2.13 and 1.60GHz, the E7330, E7320, and E7310 respectively. There are also two DC parts (also 80W): the E7220 and the E7210.

muddocktor

Sledgehammer70 wrote:

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With news that AMD's Barcelona might pack more of a punch than Intel's offering, now would be an opportune moment to highlight that Intel is moving forward with its next core update, Tigerton, which is a Xeon MP processor. This chip will compete head to head with AMD's Barcelona in 4-CPU server setups.

I really don't see Barcelona smoking Intel's present Core-based Xeon offerings in any significant way for quite a while yet much less the Tigerton processors, especially at the low speeds they will be introduced at. I think that at most, Barcelona will only get AMD close to parity in performance, clock-for-clock. But since really reliable benchmarks are so hard to find I guess we will just have to wait until they get into some reliable review website's hands such as Anandtech, etc to see. But in a 4 processor board the lack of an integrated memory controller on the Intel parts might make a performance difference, I'll give you that.

But I do think that Intel is trying to steal AMD's thunder with the early release; it's a game both companies have played in the past with great regularity.

Sledgehammer70

It is kind of funny now that numbers of the Barcelona CPU are getting leaked all the sudden Intel is pushing launch dates forward... AMD's CPU's are going to be better than most people have made them out to be, and Intel knows it.

muddocktor

I hope so. I just love having access to cheap, high performance processors from either company. And AMD really needs Barcelona to kick ass so they can make a profit soon.