i82020GEM or i82020NNN
so you have intel 8 core, 2020, GPU, ECC, multiplier or without... then we're back to really bad clusters of numbers and letters, but at least in that scenario it has meaning.
EX-YZZZ vA
E3 - Rebranded Desktop Class parts with ECC support
E5 - High-Desktop & Regular Multi-Processor Server parts
E7 - High-End Multi-Processor Server
Y - Denotes Socket Support. ZZZ - Denotes a model number, indicating from low to high increases in features, cores and/or clock speed. vA - Denotes Generation.
Xeon E5-2980v2 - is a high-core count server processor for use in dual socket servers, belonging to the Ivy Bridge Generation of parts.
The new naming "convention" is as follows - from a glance can you identify any information from this;
Xeon Bronze 3204
Xeon Silver 4214R
Xeon Gold 6212U
Xeon Gold 6342
Xeon Platinum 8280
Xeon Platinum 8380
Xeon W-2295
Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum - are so unclear as to be meaningless - there are dual socket Silver processors more capable than some Gold processors. W prefixed parts are Workstation parts. The First Digit bears no connection to anything (except in the platinum series where it denotes 8 socket capability), perhaps PCI-E Lanes? The Second digit apparently denotes generation. The Suffix denotes that it's only capable of running in a single processor configuration - except when it doesn't.
Ohh, and the 'E3-**** v*' convention still stands for desktop rebranded parts.
It's a complete mess.
One pattern is: If first digit is 3,4,5 then it has one AVX512 FMA unit, if it is 6,7,8 then it has two.
...except the 5122 (2), 5219Y (2), 5222 (2) and 6122 (1)
Core was based on the mobile-focused Pentium-M design from their Israeli team. That lineage traces back to the Pentium III but both the Pentium-M and Core designs had significant modifications so I wouldn’t describe it as bringing something old back — more like admitting that the NetBurst big gamble had failed and they switched to a design more like what everyone else was making. The P4 was kind of interesting as Intel’s second bust around the turn of the century based on a design which tried to hit higher performance assuming everyone had access to highly-sophisticated compilers and would use them carefully. As with Itanium, I do wonder whether anything would have been different if they’d open sourced icc – the profits weren’t significant and while that could have benefited AMD, I doubt that would have outweighed two major flops.