It seems Intel are slowly getting back on their feet with the up-coming Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU. Leaked photos and rumors show the CPU could have up to 80 cores. Let’s see if it can compete against AMD’s EPYC processors.
Taken from HotHardware … Past leaks have suggested that Intel’s upcoming 4th Gen Xeon Scalable server processors codenamed Sapphire Rapids will flex up to 56 cores and 112 threads of big iron, but maybe an even bigger flex is in store. A user who got their hands on a supposed Sapphire Rapids engineering sample did onlookers a solid by peeling away the integrated heatspreader, to reveal some interesting details.
We have seen Sappire Rapids in the wild before, assuming the leaked photos that popped up in February were not fake. They showed the top and bottom of an engineering sample. That leak also came with an accompanying pin diagram, which depicted a new LGA4577-X socket.
The additional pins over LGA4189 enable some new features, some of which include DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0 support, Compute Express Link 1.1, and built-in AI acceleration using new Advanced Matrix extensions. However, none of the previous leaks exposed the parts that sit underneath the IHS. That is, until now.
… The chip maker also confirmed support for DDR5 memory, and Intel documents indicate Sapphire Rapids will feature on-package HBM support as well. Official details on everything else will have to wait. Same goes for seeing how Intel’s upcoming server CPUs compete against AMD’s EPYC 7003 series, which helped the company more than double its data center revenue last quarter (compared to the same quarter a year ago).
Source: HotHardware
