Sapphire Rapids-Refresh: A Few More Cores for the Workstation Segment

I have installed a set of Intel processors for the Xeon W3400 and W2400 processors for the Workstation market for years. In the form of the w9-3495X, the Spitzen model with 56 cores was tested. There are many platforms with motherboards and special features that can be used.

Now the Intel can use a Refresh-dieser processor that is suitable for Sapphire Rapids-Refresh entsprechend bezeichnet is. Now that the fragmentation has appeared, there is no more information about Emerald Rapids and the active Xeon-Generation is badly affected. As a technical company focuses on the first Look at the day that the Sapphire Rapids (four Xeon-Generation) follows the way to Emerald Rapids (the Xeon-Generation) on the basis of the platform.

Intel has started to implement Uncore support for Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids, so it is a PCI-Express incompatibility with W790 chipset, for example. You can buy PCI-Express lanes that you can use. The Xeon-W-2400-Series is available from 64, for the Xeon-W-3400-Series it is 112.

Larger devices are suitable for the new Xeon W3500 and W2500 processors. The maximum CPU core is in the Xeon W3500 series from 56 to 60 years old, in the Xeon W2500 series is now 26 years old to 24 years old. The top model Xeon w9-3595X now comes at 385 W, while the previous one is 350 W. For the Xeon w7-2595X is 250 W and is 225 W. “There is no free launch” – a higher number and cores see a higher temperature consumption after itself, as Intel has retained the maximum circuit rates. The basic circuit rates can vary between 100 and 300 MHz.

The X model is further unlocked and can thus theoretically be signed. Who often takes over the function of Gebrauch is no longer available. The enthusiastic market for Intel with the price for processor, motherboard and hardware experience is also back.

Together with an Intel partner, all motherboards with W790 chipset will be compatible with the processors of the Xeon-W3500 and Xeon-W2500 series. The current and voltage distribution of the boards lasts with the light and the power supply is always easy to maintain.

I think of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors that use the workstation processors on their own house on the basis of Cascade Lake, such as Intel with the Sapphire Rapids Refresh that has been updated. All benchmarks are available for the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7985WX and the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7975WX with 64, or 32. Cores of the Xeon w9-3495X with 56 cores straight German beaten – both in single and multi-threaded applications. Possible software optimization and the installation of the AVX-512 can be done in a natural way, the Intel here and the next step.

The Xeon W3500 and Xeon W2500 processors are available in the cabinet – or in boxed variants – in the trade. Workstation recommendations from Dell, HP and Lenovo are equipped with extensive systems.