Question
High CPU droplet CPUs (Xeon Platinum 8168 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4)
- Posted October 9, 2017
- DigitalOcean
"Access some of Intel’s® most powerful CPUs including Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake) with a 2.7 Ghz Clock Speed and Xeon E5-2697A v4 (Broadwell) with a 2.6 Ghz Clock Speed. "
High CPU introduction page states that 2 different CPUs are used for high CPU droplets. Does this mean some data centers use 8168 and some use E5-2697A? Or are they mixed in every data center? Do you have a list of CPUs used in each datacenter?
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Currently, you can get Optimized Droplets (Formerly referred to as “High-CPU Droplets” ) running on Skylake instances definitively in Singapore (SGP1). All other regions are currently a mix of both the Xeon Platinum 8168 vs Xeon E5-2697Av4.
All new servers added to back Optimized Droplets are the Skylake processor so over time you should see more and more of them in the Fleet in other DCs.
I’d love an answer to this as well. I’ve tried finding a Skylake 8168 and so far haven’t seen one in AMS3, FRA1, LON1 or NYC3.