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Sucky. Where is our 128-256MB eDRAM on these for l4 cache use? <a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.overclock.net/content/type/61/id/2632374/"><img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="2632374" data-type="61" src="http://www.overclock.net/content/type/61/id/2632374/width/20/height/20/flags/LL" style="; width: 20px; height: 20px"></a></div>

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Zero989</strong> <a href="/t/1580298/xfastest-x99-broadwell-e-processor-exposure-i7-6950x-have-10-cores-and-20-threads-with-25mb-cache/0_40#post_24600906"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif"></a><br><br>

No mention of lanes available<br>

No mention of L4 cache. no l4 cache? no point in upgrading...</div>

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Because eDRAM was for making graphics non-terrible?<br><br>

Server chips have a buttload of L3 instead and terabyte-scale amounts of RAM. There's not really a market for it and it costs money.<br><br>

And let's be honest, if they did include L4 and drove up the price by $100, OCN would be first in line to complain. <img alt="rolleyes.gif" class="bbcode_smiley" src="http://files.overclock.net/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif"><br><br><div class="quote-container" data-huddler-embed="/t/1580298/xfastest-x99-broadwell-e-processor-exposure-i7-6950x-have-10-cores-and-20-threads-with-25mb-cache/0_40#post_24600895" data-huddler-embed-placeholder="false"><span>Quote:</span>

<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>iLeakStuff</strong> <a href="/t/1580298/xfastest-x99-broadwell-e-processor-exposure-i7-6950x-have-10-cores-and-20-threads-with-25mb-cache/0_40#post_24600895"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif"></a><br><br>

Not sure why people are sceptical about core increase. <b>Broadwell Xeon see a increase from Haswell too.</b> 10 is a weird number but who knows what Intel is up to.<br><br>

Notice Q1 2016 release. Seems like Intel is right on track for Q1 for the upcoming Broadwell chips <img alt="thumb.gif" class="bbcode_smiley" src="http://files.overclock.net/images/smilies/thumb.gif"></div>

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This is true. But the same is true of <i>every generation of Xeon</i> and tells us absolutely nothing. Broadwell-EP is supposed to have 22, Haswell-EP has 18, Ivy-EP 12, Sandy-EP 8, Westmere-EP 6, and Nehalem-EP 4. Similarly, Broadwell-EX is supposed to have 24, Haswell-EX has 18, Ivy-EX 15, Westmere-EX 10, and Nehalem-EX 8.<br><br>

If you really want a good indicator of core count, look at the smallest die they make. That's your best bet since that's what's used in i7s. Haswell's smallest one has 8 cores, for example. Ivy's also has 8, though there are no non-server 8-core parts. I suspect that Broadwell uses 8-core, 16-core, and 24-core dies for the server parts.