Intel Xeon D-1541 or Xeon E5-2630L V3 What wins?

Which is faster, Xeon D-1541 or Xeon E5-2630L V3

  • Xeon D-1541

    Votes: 22 55.0%
  • Xeon E5-2630L V3

    Votes: 18 45.0%

  • Total voters
    40
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Netwerkz101

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I read it as "get one of each" ... or if you can only have one, decide if you want SoC or socketed.
Some other determination other than "speed" as those were pretty close in the test performed.
 

cheezehead

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If you are building new I would go D unless you need 2 procs, a lot of ram, or a lot of PCIe lanes then E5. Intel really cannibalized (outside of workstation sku's) the E3 with the D releases. The other wrinkle in the mix is the used market where Haswell E5's are starting to price in with motherboard significantly cheaper than new D's. Even though a D setup would use less power, what's your realistic ROI vs a slightly older more power hungry box?
 

PigLover

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The E5 platform also delivers 10 SATA ports natively while the D-1541 only has 6. Adding an HBA to the Xeon D could wash out much of the power advantage in some cases. For example, if you have a 1u case with 8 hotswap bays the E5 platform could be a better choice.

Point being you need to consider the whole build, not just the CPU capabilities, when planning your build.
 

Netwerkz101

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Point being you need to consider the whole build, not just the CPU capabilities, when planning your build.
Absolutely ... and it's not like we would separate an SoC Xeon D from it's board anyhow.

I'm wondering what happens if you drop the "L" and compare an E5-2630 v3 to the Xeon D 1541.
 

PigLover

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I'm wondering what happens if you drop the "L" and compare an E5-2630 v3 to the Xeon D 1541.
I think the high turbo on the 'non L' E5-2630 v3 would make this race almost uninteresting. Perhaps not as bad as you against Usain Bolt in a 100 meter race - but you get the idea...

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Patrick

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Absolutely ... and it's not like we would separate an SoC Xeon D from it's board anyhow.

I'm wondering what happens if you drop the "L" and compare an E5-2630 v3 to the Xeon D 1541.
I do not have data on the E5-2630 V3 but on the V4 - it does 5.1 compiles per hour v. the D-1541's 3.7. C-ray and others are similar.

That is why I recommend E5 for compute these days. Even for those doing nested virtualization labs (where you are looking for some performance), the second you need more than 128GB RAM or more CPU, you save power going E5-2630 V4.
 
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Patrick

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That is totally right. Like in the STH hosting cluster I have 3x E5-26xx V3 systems running the main hosting but then I have a number of Xeon D nodes for file servers (where I want a physical box) and as additional Ceph cluster nodes. The Xeon D nodes to run a few VMs each but the real reason for adding more Xeon D was because I wanted more physical cluster nodes. If I just wanted similar performance I would have gotten another 1-2 dual E5 V4 nodes.

I think if the Xeon D fits your use profile it works extremely well, especially for physical appliances. I also think dual E5-2620 V4 or dual E5-2630 V4 and doing nested virtualization for a lab has a lot of merit. The big bonus is that in 3 years you will likely be able to double (or more) the CPU power in 10 minutes and for a few bucks as the 2697, 2698 and 2699 versions come off lease.
 

TLN

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So the whole point, go with Xeon-D if you only need "features" - memory, virtualization, etc. When you start adding "devices" - HBAs, drives, etc difference in power consumption will be less noticeable, and it's better to with more powerful E5.
 
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