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

Alistair Grant akgrant0710 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 13:12:30 UTC 2019


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.  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 at openinworld.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 13:55, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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):
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>> Intel Core i9-9880H vs. Xeon E-2276M
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>> IntelĀ® Xeon E-2276M, 6 Core, 12M Cache, 2.80GHz, 4.70GHz Turbo, 35W, vPro
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>> IntelĀ® CoreTM i9-9880H Processor, 8 Core, 16MB Cache, 2.30GHz, 4.80GHz
>> Turbo, 35W, vPro
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> 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.
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> By the numbers...
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> 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
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> https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
> https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9880H-vs-Intel-Xeon-E-2276M/3456vs3489
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> cheers -ben
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