Monday, May 7th 2018
Intel Prepares Cascade Lake Architecture to Rival AMD's EPYC Offering
An anonymous user from VideoCardz shared two PowerPoint slides from an Intel 'Saudi Conference' containing information on Intel's upcoming Cascade Lake server architecture. Cascade Lake will support processors with up to 28 cores, which seems pretty weak considering that AMD's second-generation EPYC processors are rumored to be packing 64 cores. However, AMD only offers dual socket support for EPYC processors which means that a system can house up to 128 physical cores at best. Intel, on the other hand, will not only be offering dual and quad, but also octa-socket support with Cascade Lake to bring the maximum physical core count to 224 for a single system. On another note, Cascade Lake will also support up to six channels of DDR4 memory and 48 PCIe lanes per processor.
Source:
VideoCardz
22 Comments on Intel Prepares Cascade Lake Architecture to Rival AMD's EPYC Offering
AMDs response will be to add more lanes to interconnect more CPUs.
'MOAR SOCKETS'
If it weren't for AMD, we wouldn't see this Server Architecture from Intel probably not in the next decade.
That said it will probably be 48c/socket... for 192 threads per system.
Looks like you made the same mistake on Intel... logical cores means threads...
It will be the first Intel CPUs to feature the Spectre/Meltdown "hardware mitigations".
And 8 socket = more memory but licenses are per cpu and not core usually.
95% of the market is in the 2p systems.
Until Intel does MCM it doesn't mean much.