12 and 16 core Intel Xeon D are the official TDPs 45W?

This is for @Patrick and @William are the Xeon D 12 and 16 core chips all 45w TDP max? I'm just trying to plan out a little lab build I want to do.

 

That's what I was thinking too. How can you go from 8>16 cores and not double or close to double the TDP unless you make them 1GHz parts or something people wouldn't want.

 

TDP wouldnt necessarily double since not all core logic is doubled, and a bump to 55w at 16 cores wouldnt be the worst if it kept the clock rate at 2+ghz) I haven't seen a die photo to break down how much space is used for I/O but core M (which is a 4.5w tdp) used a good portion for non cpu things, this photo could probably be used to get a good estimate on what a xeon-d die looks like or at least to help identify what's what on one(does someone have a die photo?)

 

I know it's a bit different, they're both broadwell derivatives though and I couldn't find a Xeon-D die photo

 

Well, forget about graphics, so it's just the right hand side. You'll amortize a few things (storage & network controllers, etc) across more cores, but the biggest part of the chip will get doubled (cores & cache).

 

Are we sure that those are the biggest part of the chip? the x540-T2 has a 13.3 watt TDP on it's own granted that's on a 40nm lithography not 14nm but I'd be suprised if a big part of Xeon-D isn't those ethernet controllers in addition to the integrated PCH being normally a 6watt part of it's own, especially on the smaller(quad core) Xeon-D parts I'd be suprised if the TDP wasn't more feature than core driven

 

Have you guys seen this?

Super Micro Computer, Inc. Products - Server Systems based on Intel® Xeon®-D processors

They list the 16 Core D-1587 as 65w. No frequencies mentioned though.

Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP8F Want Want Want! (Pic is wrong though).

 

65W isn't bad if it's still 2+ghz also that board with that many SAS ports in an ITX formfactor would be fantastic, I don't need 2x pcie when everything i could ask for is built in XD

 

Sure you do, dual NVMe SSDs like the Intel 750 or similar

 

Any word on availability?

 

That's great but I'd be using them as hyper-v hosts so local storage is boot only and I'm giving this a real hard look case wise I'd be able to scale up later without eating up more RU
Build-a-blade BB-ITX96 blade server system for Mini ITX

 

Any chance of getting one in for a review Patrick? I am sure everyone would like to see it

 

Intel is reading 16-core Xeon D-1571 processor for microservers

If that list is accurate at all the 1571 is going to be 45w@1.3ghz(no turbo listed probably the same spread we've seen on others though so 1.7 to 1.9ghz max)

 

Hey can you blame us for being exited and speculating a bit? XD