Intel’s Sapphire Rapids is the ultimate against AMD ThreadRipper

Sapphire Rapids makes its way into the market!

After a lot of rumours and speculations, finally, Intel has addressed the growing market of workstation processors and after ages brought something exciting for enthusiasts! While most people were using AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper processors for workstation-related issues, Intel has answered them with its own New Xeon Workstation Processors in 2023.

Intel Sapphire Rapids is here!

The Blue team launched new Intel® Xeon® W-3400 and Intel® Xeon® W-2400 desktop workstation processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), led by the Intel® Xeon® w9-3495X, Intel’s most powerful desktop workstation processor ever designed. Built for professional creators, these new Xeon processors provide massive performance for media and entertainment, engineering and data science professionals.

As most professionals would love to have the latest features available with their workstation computers, the Sapphire Rapids brings support for DDR5 RDIMM memory, PCIe Gen 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6E. Additionally, support for Intel vPro® enterprise technology, alongside ECC memory and reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) technologies.

What It Offers: Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids chips will be available with up to 56 cores in a single socket, the top-end Intel Xeon W9-3495X processor features a redesigned memory controller and larger L3 cache, delivering up to 28% single-thread and up to 120% multithread performance improvements over the previous generation.

These Saphhire Rapids chips will have operational frequencies up to 4.8GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 providing professional users with incredible computing performance in daily workloads. The greater cores that Sapphire Rapids brings is what Intel enthusiasts have been wanting for years now and now Intel is here to deliver.

Other Sapphire Rapids processor features include:

• Up to 105 megabytes of L3 cache for increased performance and data management.
• Eight channels of DDR5 RDIMM memory support enable up to 4 terabytes of memory capacity and increased memory bandwidth for large data sets and memory-intensive workloads.
• ECC memory and RAS technologies support improved integrity of critical data and system reliability.
• Up to 112 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes on Xeon W-3400 processors and up to 64 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes on Xeon W-2400 processors for multi-GPUs, SSDs and network cards give professionals configuration flexibility to meet their next task.
• Integrated Intel® Wi-Fi 6E for the latest network connectivity.
• Comprehensive overclocking support for unlocked processors – including first-in-industry DDR5 XMP 3.0 RDIMM memory overclocking features.
• 3rd generation Intel® Deep Learning Boost (AMX, Bfloat16) delivers significantly more efficient deep learning acceleration for artificial intelligence training and inferencing.
• Intel vPro enterprise technologies for hardware-enhanced security features, firmware version control and remote manageability enable easy system deployment into the enterprise environment.

These new Intel Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 workstation processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids are already available for pre-order from industry partners, with system availability beginning in March. The recommended customer price for the Intel Xeon W Processor family starts at $359 (Xeon w3-2423) and scales up to $5,889 (Xeon w9-3495X).

via Intel Press Release