How's the performance of Core Xeon?

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Yes, the generational comparison is here

Old Intel Xeon servers for plotting: how old is too old?

OK, so let’s say you want to build plotting rigs for cheap. You’d go to salvage places and buy 4+ year old decommissioned Intel hardware (all decent AMD stuff based on Zen is too new, so that’s out) with lots of cores! Here are the Intel hardware generations by intro date: Nehalem (2010, 45nm) Sandy Bridge (2011, 32nm) Ivy Bridge (2012, 22nm) Haswell (2013, 22nm, power consumption improvements) Broadwell (2015, 14nm) Skylake (late 2015, 14nm, arch change!) Kaby Lake (2016, refresh) Kaby Lake R…