Competitive Performance Summary with Intel® Xeon Phi™ Product Family
Unlock deeper insights to solve your most complex data challenges faster with the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor, a foundational element of Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF)
Solve Your Complex Challenges Faster
The Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor is a true evolution in design and architecture that delivers the performance of an accelerator with the benefits of a server-class processor for your most demanding tasks. Unlock deeper insights to solve your complex data challenges faster.
Designed from the ground up to eliminate bottlenecks, the Intel Xeon Phi processor is the Intel’s first bootable host processor specifically designed for highly parallel workloads, and the first to integrate both memory and fabric technologies.
Competitive Performance Summary
Featuring up to 72 powerful and efficient cores with ultra-wide vector capabilities (Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions or AVX-512), the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor raises the bar for highly parallel computing. With no dependency on the PCIe* bus, the versatile processor is capable of handling a wide variety of workloads and configurations that are not supported by accelerators.
- Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor 7250 outperforms a hosted NVIDIA* GPU solution by up to 5x in performance—get to results faster.
Performance measurements as of June 14, 2016.
Competitive Performance Per Watt Summary
The higher degree of parallelism in the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor results in greater compute per unit of energy consumed for highly-parallel applications. Integration of 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory delivers up to 490 GB/s of sustained memory bandwidth for memory-bound workloads, and the available dual-port Intel® Omni-Path Fabric further reduces solution cost, power and space utilization.
- Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor 7250 outdoes a hosted NVIDIA* GPU solution by up to 8x in performance delivered per watt – lower energy costs.
Performance measurements as of June 14, 2016.
Competitive Performance Per Dollar Summary
The processor is binary-compatible with Intel® Xeon® processors, which allows it to run any x86 workload to optimize asset utilization across the data center. By contrast, special-purpose accelerators, like GPUs, often remain underutilized since applications are not always suitable or optimized for them. Standardizing on Intel® architecture means you can use a single programming model for your code, helping increase efficiency through a shared developer base and code reuse.
- Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor 7250 exceeds a hosted NVIDIA* GPU solution by up to 9x in performance delivered per dollar – realize compelling value.
Performance measurements as of June 14, 2016.
Configuration Details as of June 14, 2016
System Overview |
1-Node, 1P Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor 7210 |
1-Node, 1P Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor 7250 |
1-Node, 2P Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 |
1-Node, 2P Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 |
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System Description |
Intel® Server System LADMP2312KXXX41 |
Intel Server System LADMP2312KXXX41 |
Intel® Server Board S2600WT2R, BMC 1.33.9832, FRU/SDR Package 1.09 or Colfax* CX1350s-XK6 |
Supermicro* SYS-1028GR-TR server |
Processor Information |
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor 7210 (16 GB MCDRAM, 1.3 GHz, 64 Cores) |
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor 7250 (16 GB MCDRAM, 1.4 GHz, 68 Cores) |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 (45M Cache, 2.30 GHz, 18 Cores) |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 (55M Cache, 2.20 GHz, 22 Cores) |
Number of Sockets |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Number of Cores / Threads |
64 / 256 |
68 / 272 |
18 / 36 |
22 / 44 |
Memory Configuration |
96 GB DDR4-2133 Quadrant Cluster/ MCDRAM Flat mode |
96 GB DDR4-2400 Quadrant Cluster/ MCDRAM Flat mode |
128 GB DDR4-2400 |
256 GB DDR4-2133 |
Operating System |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6.7 (Santiago) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (Santiago) or CentOS 7.2 (Financial Services benchmarks) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (Santiago) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Maipo) |
Other Hardware/ Software |
Intel® Compiler 16.0.2, Intel® MPI 5.1.2.150 | One NVIDIA Tesla* K80 GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA* 7.5.17 (Driver: 352.39), ECC enabled, persistence mode enabled | ||
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Data Source |
Measured by Intel – please contact your Intel sales representative for more information. | |||
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Product and Performance Information
Benchmark results were obtained prior to implementation of recent software patches and firmware updates intended to address exploits referred to as "Spectre" and "Meltdown". Implementation of these updates may make these results inapplicable to your device or system.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark* and MobileMark*, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations, and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information visit http://www.intel.com/benchmarks.
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Intel® processors of the same SKU may vary in frequency or power as a result of natural variability in the production process.
Cost reduction scenarios described are intended as examples of how a given Intel®-based product, in the specified circumstances and configurations, may affect future costs and provide cost savings. Circumstances will vary. Intel does not guarantee any costs or cost reduction.
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