LAMBDA Vega450 Original Power supply module V4G010G
power: 450w
MADE IN THE UK
Product code: V4G010G
OurBroadwell coverage on the desktophas included reviews of the two consumer processors and abreakdown of IPC gainsfrom generation to generation. One issue surrounding Broadwell on consumer platforms was that the top quad-core model was rated at one third less power in comparison to previous Intel quad core processors. Specifically, Broadwell is 65W against 84-95W in past generations. This puts Broadwell's out-of-the-box peak performance at a TDP (and frequency) disadvantage. However in a somewhat under-the-radar launch,Intel also released a series of Broadwell Xeonsunder the E3-12xx v4 line. We sourced three socketed models, the E3-1285 v4 at 95W, the E3-1285L v4 at 65W and the E3-1265L v4 at 35W to get a better scope of Broadwell's scaling across different power requirements.
The crumb of comfort in Broadwell is its use of 128MB of eDRAM. This acts as a fully associative last level victim cache (or L4) for the processor, and speeds up certain workloads that are memory dependent and subject to L3 cache misses when data has been previously evicted. This is a narrow double-pumped serial interface capable of delivering 50GB/s bi-directional bandwidth (100GB/s aggregate). Access latency after a miss in the L3 cache is 30 - 32ns, nicely in between an L3 and main memory access. The major benefit in our testing was to the integrated graphics, giving Intel the best integrated graphics in a bit socketed platform where money is no cost. Some reviews also saw that the eDRAM helped in discrete graphics gaming as well, although at a small effect and highly game dependent (but this raises other issues regarding higher performance on lower power/frequency processors with more on-package memory). The main downside of the eDRAM however is that it is CPU resident, not visible from the system agent to the DRAM, and thus only accessible to CPU/GPU workloads rather than accelerating data over the system IO.