Intel Atom C3000 Series Launch SKUs and Differentiation

[Patrick Kennedy]

We have the list of Intel Atom C3000 series launch SKUs and discuss the key differentiators of the models in the product line formerly called "Denverton"

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[T_Minus]

def. my choice for pfsense bandwidth/performance on a budget. if I didn't already have a last-gen board

 

[CreoleLakerFan]

Yeah, if I didn't have a 24U rack full of gear in my garage I'd be all over this.

 

[MiniKnight]

They look expensive. Why wouldn't you get a Xeon Silver or Bronze and get a better platform?

 

[Evan]

They look expensive. Why wouldn't you get a Xeon Silver or Bronze and get a better platform?

Well they are really good in low power network devices and clearly also some SATA storage appliances like small NAS all the while being x86.
Think Cisco ASA of Meraki devices and controlling switches, or the likes of synology and qnap.

But outside of OEM's building them in systems seems just a price that makes Xeon-D or the big Xeon's better value and more flexible at the expense of a little extra power usage.

 

[Jeggs101]

I don't know. Same RAM as Xeon D. It's got more possible networking and SATA than Xeon D.

 

[Evan]

Yes it does have some more 10G (but Xeon-D apparently will get that update as well shortly) and more SATA so for sure some appliances related to storage.

Xeon-D has a core that support AVX2 and is about double the speed I guess.
Both require some good airflow or active cooling, C3000 is a bit lower TDP but not that much.

 

[TLN]

I guess for homelab Xeon E5 is still the King of the Value. V1/v2 or V3/v4 depending on how much mem you need.

 

[Patrick]

@TLN TBH the Xeon Silver 4108 is an awesome chip as well. Price is about the same as a Xeon D.

@Evan Supermicro A2SDi-H-TP4F Review 16 Core SoC With Power Consumption

 

[Evan]

@TLN TBH the Xeon Silver 4108 is an awesome chip as well. Price is about the same as a Xeon D.

@Evan Supermicro A2SDi-H-TP4F Review 16 Core SoC With Power Consumption

Or my favorite CPU in the scalable line (ok imagining I had one which I don't yet) the Silver 4114
Good value so long as it's not a heavy AVX512 workload of course.

That for me is much like the e5-2640v4, a well price cpu for what you get.

I saw the review, idle is just ok. Max power is amazing for a system that loaded with ram and 4x10G links active.