Intel Xeon D-1500 wave 2 (Nov 2015 launch) 35w showing up!

[Patrick]

STH officially has its first Intel Xeon D-1500 wave 2 platform with the new processors released November 2015. Based on the 35w TDP Intel Xeon D-1518 I bring you: the Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN4F.

The CPU specs are very interesting:

• 4 core/ 8 thread
• 2.2GHz base and maximum clock (no turbo boost)
• As a Xeon D-15x8 networking chip we expect this to have DPDK active

Certainly exciting times here! As a teaser - here is the miniature sticker used to distinguish the model number thanks to how tightly packed the motherboard is:

 

[MiniKnight]

Does this mean we can buy them soon?

 

[Evan]

Any chance you can run the idle power check again on the new boards ? Don't expect much difference but newer revision cpu and board may be good for a watt or 2.

 

[Patrick]

Any chance you can run the idle power check again on the new boards ? Don't expect much difference but newer revision cpu and board may be good for a watt or 2.

Yes. That will be part of the review. Still, at idle it is usually the rest of the components that are now the source of power draw.

And @MiniKnight I would assume they need to get stocked in distribution but yes.

 

[Evan]

I know what you mean, the remote management seems to be rather power hungry, wonder is the ast2500 series is much better than the currently used 2400 series that seems to use 6 or 7 watts.

 

[eva2000]

@Patrick D-1577 ???

 

[Deslok]

I wonder why intel hasn't modified a version of their GMA for remote management to reduce power further? Also they could have printed that on a heatsink it would have looked better

 

[PigLover]

I wonder why intel hasn't modified a version of their GMA for remote management to reduce power further? Also they could have printed that on a heatsink it would have looked better

They have - its called vPRO/AMT. A better question is why they only offer it on higher-end I5/i7 chips, targeting desktop remote management. They have it - they just don't put it on their server chipsets.

 

[C@mM!]

They have - its called vPRO/AMT. A better question is why they only offer it on higher-end I5/i7 chips, targeting desktop remote management. They have it - they just don't put it on their server chipsets.

It's mostly because Intel's AMT implementation is garbage. :/ Which is a shame, as it really shouldn't be too hard to do decent OoB.