Applied Micro’s new server SoC X-Gene 3 has 32 ARMv8-compatible CPU cores in a single socket to deliver performance competitive with mainstream high-end Xeon E5/ E7 processors in a similar TDP envelope.

With eight DDR4 memory channels, X‑Gene 3 beats Xeon E5 in memory bandwidth, making it suited to hyperscale workloads, such as in-memory databases, big data, machine learning, web search and HPC.

X-Gene 3’s 32 ARMv8-A 64-bit CPU cores run at up to 3.0 GHz with eight DDR4-2667 memory channels addressing up to 1TByte of memory, 42 lanes of PCI Express 3.0, 4 SATA 3.0, 2 USB 2.0 ports and 1 RGMII port.

“X-Gene 3 is targeted at over six times the performance of currently shipping X-Gene products, and very competitive with mainstream high-end Xeon processors for hyperscale workloads,” says Applied Micro vp Parag Jain.

Linley Gwennap of The Microprocessor Report says, “X-Gene 3 promises to be the breakthrough ARM-based processor that the data center market has long desired for general purpose computing and mainstream workloads. Earlier-generation ARMv8-A processors like X-Gene and X-Gene 2 have an important role in specialized applications like NFV/SDN and storage, but X-Gene 3 is a disruptive product with the potential to change the game for general-purpose cloud computing.”

X-Gene 3 is expected to sample in the second half of 2016, leading to production shipments in 2H 17.

By: DocMemory
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