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Intel could be planning a 5.1GHz Xeon for release this year

Intel could be planning quite a bit this year with its new lineup, not only have we heard talk of a new Broadwell-E processor featuring ten cores and twenty threads but now, the chip maker could be planning to release a 5.1GHz Xeon too, which will be its fastest ever quad-core CPU in terms of stock clock-speeds.

This 5.1GHz Xeon is rumored to be a part of the E5-2600 V4 family of chips, with 10MB of L3 cache and a maximum TDP of 165W, according to a report from wccftech.

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While the idea of Intel releasing a chip that breaks the 5GHz barrier is exciting, this Xeon will likely only be available through certain OEMs as it isn't really geared towards the average consumer. Either way, this is all rumor for now and there isn't really a lot of information to go off of but hopefully, we will hear more in the future.

KitGuru Says: This would be Intel's first CPU to release with a stock clock that breaks the 5GHz barrier. Would you guys like to see Intel rejoin the GHz race? 

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13 comments

  1. Sort of yes (I would like to see Intel restart the GHz race), but doing so with a Xeon isn’t entirely what I have in mind haha

  2. “fastest ever quad-core” – well, is there a chip with more or less cores that runs at a higher default clock?

  3. Do cpu’s even matter anymore is the real question.
    In my opinion for the average consumer, They haven’t really mattered for the last several years to be honest.
    When they started on dual and quad cores, The software was and sometimes still is way behind with cores just sitting there idling.
    As gpu’s keep increasing at such a rate in performance over cpu’s, There will be even less reason for cpu’s to exist. Eventually I can see the gpu taking over and having it’s own cores on board dedicated to the tasks that are currently done by cpu’s.
    Intel needs to do something entirely different, People are sick of 5-10% gains so many don’t bother buying any new cpu that comes out and will skip half a dozen generations.

  4. To my knowledge there’s only that AMD one that could turbo up to 5Ghz on one core.

  5. for work yes for play yes as well as most games are multi threaded now. web and video and word no

  6. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what CPUs and GPUs can do.

  7. in the days of TDP and power draw this will never happen. intel works smarter not faster

  8. not-a-fanboi-honest

    It’s not just on one core. Turbocore 3 can potentially boost any number of cores, including all cores, depending on the work-load/TDP headroom. 🙂

    That said, IMO “fastest ever” should be based on total throughput (work done), not clock speed and the AMD FX (8xxx/9xxx) line is physically an 8 core.

    It will be interesting to see what AMD’s Zen brings to the table.

  9. Yes but 4 I tel cores with hyperthreading can do more work then amds 8 cores fx chips and at lower clock speeds
    At 5.1Ghz they will easily beat even amds 9000 series chios

  10. not-a-fanboi-honest

    Exactly what I said above: ” IMO “fastest ever” should be based on total throughput (work done)” at no point did I say an FX was faster than anything else. However, it depends on what Intel chip too of course. And indeed when the FX was first released it was faster on some work loads than the equivalent Intel. As ever, a computer needs to have the components balanced for the given work load, power consumption and budget.

    Picking ANY components purely based on brand is silly. Rejecting a brand for dodgy business practices etc. would be acceptable too IMO though.

    Regarding Zen, no one (in the general public) can say exactly where the performance will be at this point. Price/performance and performance/watt is often more important than outright performance too.

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  13. GPUs are coprocessors. They do not work well as sequential general processing units. Hetrogenous processing is a thing, and we are seeing SoCs with more focus on DSP and larger portions of Intel’s consumer dies dedicated to the iGP, but there will always be unparallelizable workloads, and for those, sequential, hundred bit or thousand bit wide FMACs and ALUs will always be best.