Intel Xeon D-1500 Series Discussion

[hjfr]

Sadly no-one seems to be bringing out a D1520 with 2x10Gb (either copper or SFP+) which was my personal hopeful for a wonder-NAS board. Maybe in a year or two.

Open your eyes: X10SDV-4C-TLN2F has two 10gb copper.

Xeon-D 1503, 1507, 1517, 1518, 1528, 1537 and 1548 are planned for later ?

 

[Patrick]

Open your eyes: X10SDV-4C-TLN2F has two 10gb copper.

Xeon-D 1503, 1507, 1517, 1518, 1528, 1537 and 1548 are planned for later ?

Yes. Will have more on that in the review of that board. That picture of the 5 different boards I posted is a good comparison.

On the later variants, they are coming. From the rumors I have heard (not from SM) the other Xeon D SKUs got pushed and basically Intel has been supply constrained on the Xeon D. Streamlining SKUs is a symptom of that.

 

[acmcool]

Any word on SM boards with 2 PCI slots in mATX form factor?

 

[Patrick]

Any word on SM boards with 2 PCI slots in mATX form factor?

I think those will be first from non-SM.

 

[acmcool]

So looks I need 2 of these boards to build my Firewall,freenas and windows AD server...A board with 2Gig+2 10G sfp with 2 pci express slots will be awesome..

 

[hjfr]

Currently, all boards are Mini-ITX format. So, one pci-express slot...
The market for these boards are massive integration into datacenter => need small boards.

 

[acmcool]

How would Xeon D perform compared to E5 1620?
I have Freenas running with 1620..Its a power hog..

 

[Patrick]

World first - exclusive Intel Xeon D-1520 benchmarks! X10SDV-4C-TLN2F review coming next week maybe on 8/17 depending on publishing timelines.

 

[Patrick]

How would Xeon D perform compared to E5 1620?
I have Freenas running with 1620..Its a power hog..

Check http://beta.linux-bench.com

 

[acmcool]

Thanks Patrick..

 

[acmcool]

Reached out to ASrock rack sales...Lets see what they have to say...

 

[icrf]

Count me among those waiting for a non-miniITX version of a D-1500. That's an awful lot of PCIe lanes to waste with a single slot.

Posting here to keep updated on this thread.

 

[Mazo]

Looks like Intel are releasing a new revision towards November. Supports both DDR3 and DDR4.

Xeon D-1521 and D-1541 SoCs to launch in Q4 2015

 

[acmcool]

The wait on Asrock is killing me...Already sold me one of the E5 setup..

 

[hjfr]

Looks like Intel are releasing a new revision towards November. Supports both DDR3 and DDR4.

Xeon D-1521 and D-1541 SoCs to launch in Q4 2015

Wow. Just available (a little), already replaced...

 

[Patrick]

Looks like Intel are releasing a new revision towards November. Supports both DDR3 and DDR4.

Xeon D-1521 and D-1541 SoCs to launch in Q4 2015

DDR3L only if you are a big customer. By Q4 DDR4 ramp is so high that is really just a tick the box spec. You need different physical slots so expect all DDR4.

100MHz is 5% increase in speed so not anything to write home about. Bigger variations are the 25w TDP parts and the storage/ networking parts.

 

[gigatexal]

what is it about the itx form factor that is just so awesome? I want one, bad.

If / when these come down in price I'll probably get one.

 

[acmcool]

itx is good for multi node...so that cram more nodes in chassis..
I want microAtx...Do not want to waste PCI lines...

 

[gigatexal]

single pci-e 3.0, dual 10gbe, and perhaps a couple lane m.2 slot should saturate everything right? granted this is with a d-1540 and a Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F

 

[acmcool]

If it had SAS controller onboard then it should be ok..
With on PCI express I can only add SAS HBA...No room to add any NVME SSD's for SLOG or Local datastore..
Just my take on it..