Intel announces Xeon D-1700 and Xeon D-2700: Up to 20 cores
Intel announced new Xeon D processors, including the Xeon D-1700 and Xeon D-2700, to replace the Xeon D-1600 and Xeon D-2100 series. Intel said the new products have industrial-grade reliability and a variety of hardware-based security features to meet the computing needs of space- and power-constrained environments.
The new Xeon D processor continues the Ice Lake architecture, known as Ice Lake-D, which replaces the previous Broadwell architecture and has greatly improved performance and configuration. It uses the Sunny Cove micro-architecture, is manufactured with a 10nm process, supports three/four channels of DDR4-3200 memory, provides up to 56 PCIe channels, and supports 100Gbe network connections. The Xeon D-1700 series offers products from 4 to 10 cores, while the Xeon D-2700 series is from 4 to 20 cores, with a total of 36 models. The most high-end of them is the Xeon D-2700, with 20 cores and 40 threads, a base clock of 2.4GHz, a boost clock of 3.4GHz, a 30MB L3 cache, and a TDP of 129W.
Intel said that the new Xeon D processor’s visual processing inference performance has improved by up to 2.4 times, and complex network workloads such as 5G UPF at the network edge have improved by up to 1.7 times, up to 1.5x improvement in SD-WAN, SASE, and edge use cases using IPSec, up to 1.8 times improvement for application delivery controller, and security appliance use cases with TLS, and up to 1.56 times improvements for communication appliances.
