Intel quad-core Xeon 5300 review

Future

Before we start going through our tests of the Xeon, we would like to give you a small glimpse of the future. On the table below you’ll find Intel’s server/workstation roadmap for the coming year and a half. An important to note is that Intel plans to release its quad-core version of the Xeon MP for 4-way to 8-way systems in the second half of 2007. Intel has already given several demonstrations with this processor codenamed Tigerton, so its not unthinkable that the release of this processor will come a bit sooner. At around the same time that the Tigerton will be released, Intel will also introduce its newest chipset for the Xeon MP called Clarksboro as part of the Caneland platform. In the third quarter of 2007 Intel will also release a new platform for the Xeon DP: the Seaburg chipset is supposed to offer better performance due to the use of advanced snoopfilters. The Itanium processor will be Intel’s last processor to be converted to quad-core, this will happen somewhere in the second half of 2008.

For those who are left literarily slack jawed with all the various Intel codenames, we’ve provided an overview with, where known, the final product names as they will be upon release. We can see from this table that Intel will release a uni-processor quad-core server/workstation processor, based on the Kentsfield processor, in the beginning of 2007. This Processor will be part of the Xeon 3200 range.