[Vm-dev] Off-topic: Intel Core i9-9880H vs. Xeon E-2276M

[Paul DeBruicker]

Xeon's also get to take advantage of ECC RAM and i9's (and the other i
series) don't.  

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/you-really-do-need-ecc-memory/



Ben Coman wrote
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 21:12, Alistair Grant <

> akgrant0710@

> > wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I'd always assumed that Xeon's were faster because they had a
>> different internal architecture to the Core range.
> 
> 
> No, that would cost more.  The distinction between Xeon/i9/i7/i5
> is simply how well they test after manufacture.
> 
> Xeons were premium because there had to be less manufacturing errors to
> end
> up with larger caches.
> But your i9 there has a larger cache, so maybe that quality dimension has
> shifted.
> This is interesting reading...
> https://www.quora.com/How-does-Intel-design-and-produce-so-many-models-of-CPUs/answer/Jacob-VanWagoner?share=1&srid=tpqN
> 
> cheers -ben
> 
> I guess the heat
>> and power constraints of mobiles mostly negate those differences.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Alistair
>>
>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 12:41, Ben Coman <

> btc@

> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 13:55, Alistair Grant <

> akgrant0710@

> >
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I hope you don't mind a somewhat off-topic question:  Does anyone
>> >> happen to know which will be faster for running Smalltalk (i.e. single
>> >> threaded application, and given the rest of the laptop is the same):
>> >>
>> >> Intel Core i9-9880H vs. Xeon E-2276M
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Intel® Xeon E-2276M, 6 Core, 12M Cache, 2.80GHz, 4.70GHz Turbo, 35W,
>> vPro
>> >>
>> >> Intel® CoreTM i9-9880H Processor, 8 Core, 16MB Cache, 2.30GHz, 4.80GHz
>> >> Turbo, 35W, vPro
>> >
>> >
>> > Purely guesswork... that the 12MB cache is already huge and the 16MB
>> not
>> much more impactful.
>> > Obviously we ignore the number of cores.
>> > Clock frequency should have the biggest impact for single-threaded
>> apps,
>> > which primarily points to the Xeon, but I don't know how to judge the
>> i9
>> turbo being faster.
>> > Probably on a laptop you won't have the thermal overhead to run turbo
>> too much.
>> >
>> > By the numbers...
>> >
>> > PassMark - CPU Mark - Single Thread Performance
>> > Intel Xeon E-2276M @ 2.80GHz      2,684 (78%)          $450.00
>> > Intel Core i9-9880H @ 2.30GHz       2,548  (74%)         $556.00
>> >
>> > https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
>> >
>> https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9880H-vs-Intel-Xeon-E-2276M/3456vs3489
>> >
>> > cheers -ben
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>





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