News Intel to Fire Back at AMD's EPYC Rome With Cascade Lake Xeon Refresh: Report

[Admin]

A report backed by public-facing evidence exposes Intel's plan to release Cascade Lake Refresh processors soon.

Intel to Fire Back at AMD's EPYC Rome With Cascade Lake Xeon Refresh: Report : Read more

 

[spongiemaster]

A report backed by public-facing evidence exposes Intel's plan to release Cascade Lake Refresh processors soon.

Intel to Fire Back at AMD's EPYC Rome With Cascade Lake Xeon Refresh: Report : Read more

So Intel is countering 64 core Epyc Rome with a 28 core CPU? That's not even bringing a knife to a gun fight, that's bringing a Play-Doh spoon to a gun fight.

 

[bit_user]

So Intel is countering 64 core Epyc Rome with a 28 core CPU? That's not even bringing a knife to a gun fight, that's bringing a Play-Doh spoon to a gun fight.

I think the more likely scenario is countering 64-core EPYC and ThreadRipper with a dual- 28-core config*. Not that I expect it'll match AMD's perf/$, but Intel is still heavily trading on its reputation and customers' inertia.

As reported by Anandtech, Intel's Cascade Lake-AP (with up to 56 cores) seems little more than a publicity stunt, in practice:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15149/how-to-tarnish-platinum-sell-it-as-xeon-9200​

* Against dual EPYC configurations, Intel probably hopes customers will use 4x Cascade Lake-SP (they do scale up to 8x, whereas EPYC is limited to only dual-CPU configs).