The Xeon Entry Quad-Core CPU Review: Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G Tested
by Ian Cutress on March 11, 2019 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
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- Xeon E
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Gaming: Integrated Graphics
Despite being the ultimate joke at any bring-your-own-computer event, gaming on integrated graphics can ultimately be as rewarding as the latest mega-rig that costs the same as a car. The desire for strong integrated graphics in various shapes and sizes has waxed and waned over the years, with Intel relying on its latest ‘Gen’ graphics architecture while AMD happily puts its Vega architecture into the market to swallow up all the low-end graphics card sales. With Intel poised to make an attack on graphics in the next few years, it will be interesting to see how the graphics market develops, especially integrated graphics.
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | |||||
| Game | Genre | Release Date | API | IGP | |
| Final Fantasy XV | JRPG | Mar 2018 | DX11 | 720p Standard | |
| F1 2018 | Racing | Aug 2018 | DX11 | 720p Low | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | Open World | Apr 2015 | DX11 | 720p Low | |
For our integrated graphics testing, we take our ‘IGP’ category settings for each game and loop the benchmark round for five minutes a piece, taking as much data as we can from our automated setup.
All of the Xeon E processors have Intel Graphics UHD P630 enabled, and so score about the same in all our integrated tests. However, these are all far behind AMD's Pro APUs that offer up to double the performance. Intel has not pushed much for integrated graphics performance in recent generations.
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dgingeri - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
It would be interesting to get comparative data on the 2124G and the 2126G to see if 4/8 or 6/6 would perform better.dgingeri - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
er, sorry, meant the 2144G, not the 2124G.Stuka87 - Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - link
In my experience, real cores perform better than hyper-threaded cores. So I would be on the 6/6.yankeeDDL - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
Is it me of the $328 xeon often loses (and sometimes by a sizable margin) to the $199 Ryzen 2600?RSAUser - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
Definitely, but here the power envelope is important for the test, which Anandtech doesn't seem to give. It's quite worrisome how most of those Xeons are operating outside of their power envelope, that E-2174G that you are referring to is pulling 85W for a rated 71W, so Intel gives a P2 power limit. Why bother with the normal TDP then? The 2600 seems to be owning price/performance and TDP/performance. Question there is EEC memory support, and the guarantee/testing including with Xeons. That's why I mentioned including TR in the benchmarks, or at least the 2700X.This is going to be interesting when AMD releases their 7nm products.
SaturnusDK - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
All AMD CPUs based on Zen or Zen+ supports EEC RAM. It's up to the MB manufacturer if they have included the support on their MBs. For any workstation build where you don't need the memory bandwidth or superior number of PCIe lanes the TR series offer, you'd use the Ryzen Pro series, not the consumer desktop series.mode_13h - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
I seem to recall reading that at least some of the Zen-based APUs are lacking ECC-support. I'd love to be proven wrong...notashill - Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - link
AMD has directly confirmed that all Raven Ridge APUs support ECC.https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/amd-ama-start...
Yorgos - Sunday, March 17, 2019 - link
You seem to know nothing.ondma - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
The 2600 goes over its TDP as well. It actually goes over its TDP by 20%, pretty much the same percentage as the hex core Intel cpus. And as usual, Anand is using an antiquated dgpu for the gaming tests.