News Intel Sapphire Rapids-WS Lineup Leaks: Up to 56 Cores With Overclocking

[Admin]

Intel's next-generation workstation platform to feature 17 models with six to 56 cores.

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[emike09]

Well this is exciting news. I'm curious to see more details as they emerge, but pro-sumers might have a decent HEDT replacement for X299! The Xeon W5-3435X interests me the most ATM, I'm curious to see what kind of clock speeds these chips can hit, and if memory will be overclockable as well, or locked to the CPU.

Videocardz.com has a little bit more info:

Intel Xeon W-3000 Series
VideoCardz.com	Cores/Threads	CPU Clock	L3 Cache	TDP
Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Workstation SKUs
Xeon W9-3495X	56C/112T	1.9 GHz	105 MB	350W
Xeon W9-3475X	36C/72T	2.2 GHz	82.5 MB	300W
Xeon W7-3465X	28C/56T	2.5 GHz	75 MB	300W
Xeon W7-3455	24C/48T	2.5 GHz	67.5 MB	270W
Xeon W7-3445	20C/40T	2.6 GHz	52.5 MB	270W
Xeon W5-3435X	16C/32T	3.1 GHz	45 MB	270W
Xeon W5-3433	16C/32T	2.0 GHz	45 MB	220W
Xeon W5-3425	12C/24T	3.2 GHz	30 MB	270W
Xeon W5-3423	12C/24T	2.1 GHz	30 MB	220W

 

[JayNor]

phoronix had a couple of articles on user level interrupts support in SPR, which improved their IPC performance measurements by around 9x. That feature might make it attractive for simulation tools. See, for example, their article

"Intel's User Interrupts With Sapphire Rapids Looking Quite Great For Faster IPC"

 

[thestryker]

Unfortunately this looks to be aimed at TR Pro rather than bringing back actual HEDT which is what I was afraid of when the first leaks were indicating 8ch memory. I'd be pretty surprised if any of the boards cost less than $800 and same with the CPUs.

I know it's basically beating a dead horse at this point, but an actual HEDT successor with 4ch memory (keep the price of entry down), but keeping most (or all) of the extra IO is still what I wish for. I'm not sure this would even be possible with SPR though due to the chip design and split memory controllers.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Yes, this is a successor to Ice Lake-W, part of their Xeon-W workstation line. Not HEDT (-X) line.

 

[Tech0000]

The W models will be super interesting from a performance and capabilities point of view. But I'm afraid the pricing will be Xeon level, starting around $1K with top end models costing close to $10k. This makes the whole line none HEDT and just for corporates.
I for one are particularly interested in what the AMX stuff brings to NN. With 56 cores of AMX, the Xeon W9-3495X looks spectacular on paper!

 

[btmedic04]

odd to compare a server grade cpu against a workstation class platform..... oh wait this is an Anton article

 

[newtechldtech]

350W CPU ? LOL , how on earth are they planning to cool this beast? Water-cooling is not recommended in workstations.

 

[hotaru251]

but an actual HEDT successor with 4ch memory (keep the price of entry down), but keeping most (or all) of the extra IO is still what I wish for.

ur not only one...

AMD changing TR was basically death of a proper HEDT hope.. Intel gave up on it even b4 amd did. (likely just wasnt enough profit off it i assume is why)

 

[thestryker]

I hadn't looked at the leak from this article originally, but it sounds like the 2000 series will be 4 ch and single die with overclocking on 12/16/20c models. I've not seen anything with regards to socket type, but if these were also running a different socket there might be cheaper motherboards to go with them.

 

[TJ Hooker]

odd to compare a server grade cpu against a workstation class platform..... oh wait this is an Anton article

What server CPU(s) are referenced in the article?