News Intel Confirms Sapphire Rapids Coming to Workstations

[Admin]

Sapphire Rapids coming to workstations rather sooner than later?

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[JayNor]

I've seen other leaks about these including chips down to 12 cores, and with choice of 4 or 8 memory channels. Nice to see Intel reviving this market.

 

[-Fran-]

Good!

This means AMD will be now hard pressed to actually put ThreadRipper back into the "middle ground". I want those sweet sweet 4+ memory channels and glorious obscene number of PCIe lanes 😀

Regards!

 

[tamalero]

Good!

This means AMD will be now hard pressed to actually put ThreadRipper back into the "middle ground". I want those sweet sweet 4+ memory channels and glorious obscene number of PCIe lanes 😀

Regards!

This!
Hopefully AMD will get a good decent kick and make Threadripper again what it was.

 

[bit_user]

So, the entire stack is all using just the same LGA 4677 socket, right? Because it seems like a waste for the monolithic versions with <= 24 cores to have a full 8 memory channels when they only use 4. Also, with only 64 PCIe lanes connected, the other 48 lanes' worth are just dead pins & motherboard traces.

I'd consider a 16-core or 24-core version, but not if the motherboard alone is going to cost me like > $1k, mostly for PCIe lanes and memory channels I can't use.

 

[bit_user]

I've seen other leaks about these including chips down to 12 cores, and with choice of 4 or 8 memory channels.

And what do your "leaks" tell you about sockets? Do we get separate sockets for the MCM and Monolithic versions, or are they the same?

 

[thestryker]

Socket is the thing no leaks have addressed one way or the other AFAIK. While the monolithic CPUs will be quite a bit less to manufacture the motherboard situation is the big question. Even if boards are made for 4ch and fewer lanes they're still going to be quite expensive if they're using that LGA 4677 socket (I'd assume these would start around $400-500).

 

[jp7189]

Just give me 16x full fat golden cove cores at high clock speeds and I'll be happy!

 

[bit_user]

Just give me 16x full fat golden cove cores at high clock speeds and I'll be happy!

Ah, but at what price? That's where I think the socket issue will be key.

 

[bit_user]

Update: the leaked roadmap indicates it's going to be LGA 4677 for everybody.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-roadmap-leaks-raptor-lake-refresh-hedt-replacement-in-2023

Too bad. I was hoping they'd follow-on what they did in the Cascade Lake generation, with its LGA 2066 for mid-level users and LGA 3647 for the high-end. That's going to price me out of the Xeon W market.