Intel Xeon Gold 5117 Benchmarks and Review Why Bother

[Patrick Kennedy]

We have our Intel Xeon Gold 5117 benchmarks and review. This 14 core Intel Xeon Scalable CPU left us wondering, why even bother with the SKU? We present benchmark data then talk about its place in the market.

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[eva2000]

I'm scratching my head too. Thought they'd learn their lesson with meltdown/spectre and having so many SKUs to maintain - cut down the number of SKUs so you don't confuse folks and make your own job in maintaining them firmware/microcode wise that much harder !

 

[Patrick]

Just wait for the 5120. Slightly faster but three SKUs atop one another.

 

[eva2000]

Woah.. does Intel and AMD provide any stats as to which SKUs are their best selling for each server class cpu generation ?

 

[Patrick]

Woah.. does Intel and AMD provide any stats as to which SKUs are their best selling for each server class cpu generation ?

AMD provided a view of what they think Intel's looks like. To answer your question: no. We do know that the 8180, for example, is a super low volume part.

 

[Evan]

You can guess, in this generation as an idea these are what I see in enterprise (meaning price performance seems to be good)


5122 & 6144 for things where high frequency and low number of cores makes sense.
4114 general use
6132 for compute intensive
6148 for high end most reasonable price power in a 2 cpu config

I have no insight into cloud providers are using but they are driving the most volume at certain usage type in the market.

 

[eva2000]

AMD provided a view of what they think Intel's looks like. To answer your question: no. We do know that the 8180, for example, is a super low volume part.

Always been curious as to the logistics of it all. Maybe STH article worthy ?

So you mass produce a cpu SKU only for the low demand SKU stock to pile up in warehouses - what becomes of those cpu stock long after the next generation arrives ?

You can guess, in this generation as an idea these are what I see in enterprise (meaning price performance seems to be good)


5122 & 6144 for things where high frequency and low number of cores makes sense.
4114 general use
6132 for compute intensive
6148 for high end most reasonable price power in a 2 cpu config

I have no insight into cloud providers are using but they are driving the most volume at certain usage type in the market.

I know Linode has been spotted with Xeon Gold 6148 at least

 

[Patrick]

2x $2500 CPUs in a consumer system would be over 50% of the system value in most cases.
2x $2500 CPUs in a server are often under 25% of a system's value, sometimes a lot less, and an even lower portion of TCO

If you look at the cloud providers, they are on high-end CPUs.

 

[Robert Fontaine]

Intel has done an incredible job ensuring no one knows what cpu to spec for a job at this point. Hard to understand why they would want to spend more money to create confusion.

 

[mstone]

Intel has done an incredible job ensuring no one knows what cpu to spec for a job at this point. Hard to understand why they would want to spend more money to create confusion.

The model is "how much money do you have? here's a cpu!"