Best processor? x5675 or E7-2860

[idata]

About to buy a Cisco UCS for VMware and VDI. One package uses http://ark.intel.com/products/52577/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5675-(12M-Cache-3_06-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI) Intel® Xeon® Processor X5675 (12M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI) the other uses http://ark.intel.com/products/53570/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-2860-(24M-Cache-2_26-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI) Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-2860 (24M Cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI). Which is better? Thanks, Roland

[Adolfo_S_Intel2]

I understand that you are looking for recommendations about 2 Intel processors.

In this particular case I would suggest the i7-2860, since this processor support 10 physical cores plus 10 logical cores, for a total of 20 cores, while the other processors supports only a total of 12 cores (6 physical and 6 logical).

Please check the following comparison chart:

http://ark.intel.com/compare/52577,53570 http://ark.intel.com/compare/52577,53570

Just keep in mind that if you will need a lot more than 32 GB RAM, you might need to use the Intel® Xeon® processor X5675 since this one supports up to 288 GB RAM, while the i7-2860 supports only 32 GB RAM per CPU.

[idata]

Good point about cores, I just see the 3 GHz and think POWER . It's hard to balance many cores/ lower MHz vs higher GHz / lower core count- Roland