Thursday, March 24, 2011
Intel quitely ships 4.4 GHz Xeon X5698
Intel Xeon X5698 is built on Westemere microarchitecture, and, with a couple of notable differences, shares many features with other Xeon 5600 chips. One of the differences, extremely high core frequency. This model has only two active CPU cores, and we believe that 4 other cores on the die are disabled. The processor comes with 12 MB L3 cache. However 4,4Ghz clock is not Intel's best X5698 part, but this one:
AT80614007320AA | Q5C3 | 4.66 GHz |