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No, they are Ivy Bridge-E. Haswell-E doesn't ship until 2014.
by oofabz 13y ago
No, they are Ivy Bridge-E. Haswell-E doesn't ship until 2014.
- bhauer 13y agoOh? I had been under the impression that Haswell Xeons (at least the E3 v3 series) were available "now" [1]: "Twelve of the chips are available now, but the 13 watt E3-1220L that will be particularly interesting for microservers is not going to be available until the third quarter..." What am I missing here? Presumably the 12-core option would be an E5, is that it? [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/intel_haswell_xeon_e3_1200_v3_server_chip/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/intel_haswell_xeon_e...
- oofabz 13y agoThe Haswell Xeon E3 series is quad core, single-socket. It uses the same die as desktop Haswell CPUs. The Mac Pro is six core, double-socket, so it must be a "-E". Based on the availability date (later this year), it must be Ivy Bridge-E. Intel will almost certainly call it an E5.
- bhauer 13y agoThanks. That was my vague suspicion--that the 12-core option would be an E5. Presumably the specs they announced are the top-end specs. Perhaps the lower tiers would use E3s.
- wtallis 13y agoThey're advertising quad-channel DDR3-1866. That entirely rules out the desktop-class processors, which have never been used in a Mac Pro anyways. The Xeon E3 and E5 lines use completely different die configurations and motherboard sockets, and the E3s don't have enough PCIe lanes to feed all the peripheral connectivity the new Mac Pro will have.
- foxhill 13y agohow comes there are no 16-core mac pros? :(
- wmf 13y agoSounds like there's not enough room to cool 16 cores. (BTW, Ivy Bridge-EP supports 20 or 24 cores in a 2-socket machine.)