12th Gen Intel vs Xeon for PowerBI App

[JonathanLA]

I'm going to be gettng some quotes from our HP enterprise rep soon about a new computer and was wondering if there were any benefits to going with a 12th gen Intel and if so, how many power and effeciancy cores? Or would a Xeon 12xx series processor be better or as good?

Not doing heavy modeling but a lot of manual report refreshes (compocated story), some modeling, and visualization creating and editing. This could grow so wuld like a processor that has plnty of headroom for that.

It will also be our primamry computer so will b running Outlook, Teams, browsers, etc, etc so also needs to handle these like a champ.  🙂

TIA

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Lots of cores, lots of memory - those are always good.  Note that Power BI Desktop is pretty bad at asking for more memory - you need to help it in the settings. 

Either processor will be fine. Assuming they are running at more than 3GHz. Again, higher is better.

[JonathanLA]

Thanks @lbendlin 

Which cores are more important for powerBI? P or E?

[lbendlin]

That depends on your setup.  P SKUs are for Premium environments (inside a company), E SKUs are for Embedded environments that are mostly used by ISVs etc. and targeted at users outside the company.