Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2016 18:26:47 GMT -5
The article below talks about Cavium's ThunderX 2.
www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/03/next-generation-thunderx2-arm-targets-skylake-xeons/
It states that it is going to be very competitive with X-Gene 3 in terms of spec-int.
See figure 1 in the Linley Group white paper:
www.linleygroup.com/cms_builder/uploads/x-gene-3-white-paper-final.pdf
The spec-int figures are as follows:
AMD 1170 is around 90, which is the equivalent of an INTC Atom, so not a contender
X-Gene 2 has a spec-int around 95, meh
Cavium's ThunderX has a spec-int around 350
X-Gene 3 is around 550 (Xeon territory)
X-Gene 3XL is likely around 825, since spec-int scales about 75% with the increase (double) in cores (from the white paper above)
ThunderX 2 may be upwards of 875 with the claim that ThunderX 2 is 2~3x more powerful than ThunderX (see nextplatform article)
X-Gene 3XL could find itself in a statistical dead-heat with ThunderX 2 performance wise.
Time frames for X-Gene 3 and ThunderX 2 are comparable.
Cavium has a contender here. They are not looking to grow the eco-system, rather they are looking to win!
Gopi needs to address this during the next earnings call.
www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/03/next-generation-thunderx2-arm-targets-skylake-xeons/
It states that it is going to be very competitive with X-Gene 3 in terms of spec-int.
See figure 1 in the Linley Group white paper:
www.linleygroup.com/cms_builder/uploads/x-gene-3-white-paper-final.pdf
The spec-int figures are as follows:
AMD 1170 is around 90, which is the equivalent of an INTC Atom, so not a contender
X-Gene 2 has a spec-int around 95, meh
Cavium's ThunderX has a spec-int around 350
X-Gene 3 is around 550 (Xeon territory)
X-Gene 3XL is likely around 825, since spec-int scales about 75% with the increase (double) in cores (from the white paper above)
ThunderX 2 may be upwards of 875 with the claim that ThunderX 2 is 2~3x more powerful than ThunderX (see nextplatform article)
X-Gene 3XL could find itself in a statistical dead-heat with ThunderX 2 performance wise.
Time frames for X-Gene 3 and ThunderX 2 are comparable.
Cavium has a contender here. They are not looking to grow the eco-system, rather they are looking to win!
Gopi needs to address this during the next earnings call.