[SOLVED] Xeon processor designation confusion

[ManOfArc]

Can someone explain to me the Xeon CPU designation? How they match up to their Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, etc. counterparts. And how the Name/Number references dual core, quad core, etc. I keep having to refer back to Intel's ARK and it gets confusing and can't seem to catch on to the code. There must be an easy way to memory match them to their i Core brethren. Thanks.

 

[Eximo]

Not really. I'm sure you have the basics already of v2 = Ivy, v3 = Haswell, v5 = Skylake, and v6 Kabylake. But that only applies to the 1:1 Xeon Core equivalents.

The nitty gritty can be found here, but it isn't worth memorizing.

http://www.cpu-world.com/info/id_model/Intel-server-conventions.html

 

[ManOfArc]

Thank you. I see what you mean. Could Intel make it anymore cryptic than that? Sheesh! That chart must be something only a chip designer can love.
Btw, if v2 were Ivy Bridge, what were Sandy Bridge called? Just v? v1?

 

[Eximo]

Sandy chips are just the bare numbers like E3-1270

Which is very like the 1st gen core not having a prefix.