Intel finally launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)

Finally, today Intel made three big announcements in the form of 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series (code-named Ponte Vecchio).

As Intel says this new high-performance driven CPUs/GPUs will be delivering for its customers a leap in data center performance, efficiency, security and new capabilities for AI, the cloud, the network and edge, and the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Though it remains to be seen how these new Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips stack up against the likes of AMD’s latest EPYC Genoa chips, Intel hasn’t compared these Sapphire Rapids chips with AMD but with their last-gen.

As Intel’s most sustainable data center processors, 4th Gen Xeon processors deliver customers a range of features for managing power and performance, making the optimal use of CPU resources to help achieve their sustainability goals.

Unlike any other data center processor on the market and already in the hands of customers today, the 4th Gen Xeon family greatly expands on Intel’s purpose-built, workload-first strategy and approach.

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)Leading Performance and Sustainability Benefits with the Most Built-In Acceleration

When comparing with prior generations, 4th Gen Intel Xeon customers can expect a 2.9x average performance per watt efficiency improvement for targeted workloads when utilizing built-in accelerators, up to 70-watt power savings per CPU in optimized power mode with minimal performance loss, and a 52% to 66% lower TCO.

Intel Data Center GPU Max Series PCIe Intel finally launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)
On Jan. 10, 2023, Intel introduced the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series for high performance computing and artificial intelligence. The Data Center GPU Max Series is a high-density processor, packing over 100 billion transistors into a 47-tile package with up to 128 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Sustainability

The new Optimized Power Mode can deliver up to 20% socket power savings with a less than 5% performance impact for selected workloads. New innovations in air and liquid cooling reduce total data center energy consumption further; and for the manufacturing of 4th Gen Xeon, it’s been built with 90% or more renewable electricity at Intel sites with state-of-the-art water reclamation facilities.

Intel finally launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)

Artificial Intelligence

Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon unlocks new levels of performance for inference and training across a wide breadth of AI workloads. The Xeon CPU Max Series expands on these capabilities for natural language processing, with customers seeing up to a 20x speed-up on large language models. With the delivery of Intel’s AI software suite, developers can use their AI tool of choice, while increasing productivity and speeding up time to AI development.

Networking

4th Gen Xeon offers a family of processors specifically optimized for high-performance, low-latency networks and edge workloads.

High-Performance Computing

The Xeon CPU Max Series is the first and only x86-based processor with high bandwidth memory, accelerating many HPC workloads without the need for code changes. The Intel Data Center GPU Max Series is Intel’s highest-density processor and will be available in several form factors that address different customer needs.

The Xeon CPU Max Series offers 64 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory (HBM2e) on the package, significantly increasing data throughput for HPC and AI workloads. Compared with top-end 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the Xeon CPU Max Series provides up to 3.7 times more performance on a range of real-world applications like energy and earth systems modelling.

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