Aida 64 is a system diagnostics and benchmarking tool that can read and test current hardware. The latest beta version announces preliminary support for Alder Lake X processors, which speaks for a new HEDT platform from Intel. Read more about this below.
Intel’s HEDT platforms have long been the pinnacle for PC enthusiasts. Although the processors often did not correspond to the latest architecture that was available in the mainstream segment, they still offered a good compromise for users who wanted to combine high gaming performance with even higher application performance. Intel’s most recent HEDT platform is the X299. This platform has been on the market since 2017 and lacks modern features such as PCI-E 4.0 and 5.0 and, with the Intel Core i9-10980XE, offers an 18-core processor that is beaten by both Intel’s and AMD’s current chips in games and applications will.
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Now the patch notes for a new beta version of Aida 64 have published preliminary support for a new platform. The system diagnosis and benchmark tool should support new Alder Lake-X processors. The X suffix has been used by Intel for the HEDT platforms in recent years and since Intel has also introduced new technologies such as PCI-E 5.0 with Alder Lake, a new HEDT platform with DDR5 memory would be quite conceivable. However, Intel itself has not yet officially announced a HEDT platform for the desktop area.
Versions of Intel’s Sapphire Rapid processors with an open multiplier and fewer cores compared to the server chips but more cores than the Alder Lake S would be conceivable. A waiver of the efficiency cores seems likely for a HEDT platform. The first rumors about Sapphire Rapids-X could also be true and Alder-Lake-X should exist in parallel. Intel already used this concept in the days of Skylake-X and released Kaby-Lake-X as an entry point for the HEDT area. The HEDT chips may also offer a cheap entry point for AVX-512 support, which has now been banned for the mainstream socket. A new HEDT platform from Intel would definitely have to compete with AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 5000 Pro CPUs and possibly also with normal Threadripper 5000 chips, according to AMD’s release.
Source: Aida64 & Tom’s hardware
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