IT House May 8 news, according to wccftech news, the latest information about Intel’s latest HEDT platform Sapphire Rapids-X “Xeon-W” has been leaked by netizen Moore’s Law is Dead (Moore’s Law is Dead). The new information adds more details about two parts in the lineup, the first being the Xeon-W mainstream platform and the second the Xeon-W professional platform.
The Intel Sapphire Rapids-X “Xeon-W” is based on the Fishhawk Falls platform and will be available in two variants:The mainstream platform has 24 cores and a core frequency of up to 5GHz, while the professional platform has up to 112 cores and 8-channel DDR5 memory.
Intel will drop the “Core-X” series nomenclature from their product line in favor of the new “Xeon-W” series nomenclature. This is similar to AMD’s approach, which also ditched the traditional Ryzen Threadripper nomenclature in favor of the all-new “Pro” nomenclature across all high-end consumer models in the Zen 3 series.
Intel Sapphire Rapids-X-Xeon-W Professional Workstation Platform
Intel plans to further subdivide its Sapphire Rapids HEDT platform into two categories, professional workbenches and mainstream workbenches. The Professional Workbench platform will succeed the Ice Lake-W Xeon CPUs coming in 2020. These processors will have a minimum of 12 cores and a maximum of 56 Golden Cove cores, with frequencies boosted to above 4GHz. This will be a diverse product portfolio, with the flagship model having a TDP of up to 350W. Prices for these chips are expected to be in the $3000-$5000 range, putting them in the ultra-high performance category.
The Fishhawk Falls platform will support the latest hardware, including 8-channel DDR5-4400 (1DPC)/DDR5-4800 (2DPC) memory and up to 112 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes. These memory channels all support ECC and will theoretically support up to 4TB of DDR5 memory. And there will likely be dual-socket SPR Pro motherboards that will boost the core count to 112 per platform, nearly double AMD’s flagship Threadripper 5995WX (64 Zen 3 cores).
Summarize the latest exposure of the Intel HEDT professional platform:
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Sapphire Rapids-X “Xeon-W” HEDT CPUs
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Up to 56 cores / 112 threads
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LGA 4677 socket support (possible dual socket motherboard)
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112 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes
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8-channel DDR5 memory (up to 4 TB)
Intel Sapphire Rapids-X-Xeon-W mainstream workstation platform
The second platform is a more mainstream workstation product and will replace the Cascade Lake-X and Xeon-W Skylake-X (Xeon W-3175X) chips. Sapphire Rapids-X CPUs will have up to 24 cores in a single monolithic design. The maximum turbo frequency can reach 5 GHz, and the all-core turbo frequency is about 4.4-4.6 GHz. The CPU can reach up to PL1 TDP of 200-300W TDP. According to different specifications and different turbo frequency designs, the TDP of top models can reach up to 300-400W PL2. The latest consumer platform flagship Core i9-12900KS has a PL2 rating of 241W.
In terms of performance, according to the current exposure, the 24 Golden Cove cores can easily surpass the 32-core 3970X in multi-threading, which is about the same as the 32-core 5970X, but AMD’s top 64-core series will only be handed over to the latest Intel professional platform to contend.
As for mainstream platforms, 4-lane (EEC) DDR5 support will be supported, bringing the number of PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes down to 64. Pricing will be roughly similar to previous Core-X CPUs at around $500-3000. According to information previously learned by IT House, the Fishhawk HEDT series will be based on the W790/C790 PCH, but considering that there are at least two platforms in development, there may be a higher-end PCH model. The launch will take place in the third quarter of 2022, around the same time as the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, but Intel will likely give us a first look at the platform at Computex later this month.
In the model anatomy, there are at least four different CPU models and three different platform configurations, starting with the Sapphire Rapids-SP XCC die, these chips will target the server market and will not be part of the Xeon Workstation HEDT family. Then there’s the Sapphire Rapids-112L XCC chip, which will provide up to 112 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes and will be available under the Expert Workstation platform (most likely in a dual-slot design). Then there’s the Sapphire Rapids-SP MCC configuration, which will offer a medium core count but with 8-channel memory support. Finally, the entry-level SPR-MSWS mainstream workstation platform will have the same MCC chip, but only support 4-channel DDR5 memory.
From this exposure, Intel’s latest HEDT will have the following different positioning:
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Sapphire Rapids-AP (Xeon workstation class)
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Sapphire Rapids-X (high-end audiophile level)
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Sapphire Rapids-X (mainstream audiophile level)
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