Monday, October 8th 2018
Intel Xeon W-3175X is a new Beast for Workstation Lovers: 28 Cores and Up to 512 GB of Memory
Although the big stars of today's Intel event have been the new desktop processors, the company also wanted to take this opportunity to launch its new beasts for the workstation field. These are the Intel Xeon W-3175X, which are destined to conquer ambitious users in that professional segment. These unlocked microprocessors, similar (but not equal) to what we saw at Computex in June, have 28 cores, 56 threads and base frequencies of 3.1 GHz, although they can reach 4.3 GHz.
These chips support 68 PCIe 3.0 lanes (44 on the CPU, 24 on the chipset), and there is another important feature on the memory front: the 6-channel DDR4 support allows the user to configure these systems with up to 512 GB at 2666 MHz (ECC and standard). This processor's TDP is 255 W and is based on Intel's Skylake-X architecture.
This chip uses LGA3647 (Socket P) - and that move from Intel will make it necessary to use new motherboards. ASUS and Gigabyte have confirmed they will launch products for this processor; for example, the former will launch ASUS ROG Dominus Extreme, that features not one but two 24-pin ATX power connectors besides the 4x 8-pin and 2x 6-pin 21 V ATX power connectors. That motherboard provides 12x DDR4 slots for up to a maximum of 192 GB of RAM.
During the presentation event of this processor Intel invited to the stage one of the people in charge of Tangent Studios. This company has created the film 'Next Gen' for Netflix (which will be released soon), and these new processors accelerated the Blender rendering tasks with. The use of Intel Embree - a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels - in combination with these processors allowed a 15% reduction in the rendering time of these frames, which typically reached 4 hours.
Intel has confirmed that these processors will be available in December, although we do not yet know their price. It'll be interesting to compare these against the new Threadripper chips from AMD, which, by the way, has announced a promising Dynamic Local Mode to improve performance in gaming scenarios if you want to get the best of both worlds.
Source:
Intel Newsroom
These chips support 68 PCIe 3.0 lanes (44 on the CPU, 24 on the chipset), and there is another important feature on the memory front: the 6-channel DDR4 support allows the user to configure these systems with up to 512 GB at 2666 MHz (ECC and standard). This processor's TDP is 255 W and is based on Intel's Skylake-X architecture.
During the presentation event of this processor Intel invited to the stage one of the people in charge of Tangent Studios. This company has created the film 'Next Gen' for Netflix (which will be released soon), and these new processors accelerated the Blender rendering tasks with. The use of Intel Embree - a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels - in combination with these processors allowed a 15% reduction in the rendering time of these frames, which typically reached 4 hours.
Intel has confirmed that these processors will be available in December, although we do not yet know their price. It'll be interesting to compare these against the new Threadripper chips from AMD, which, by the way, has announced a promising Dynamic Local Mode to improve performance in gaming scenarios if you want to get the best of both worlds.
33 Comments on Intel Xeon W-3175X is a new Beast for Workstation Lovers: 28 Cores and Up to 512 GB of Memory
X599 is the exotic cars of the PC world. The cream of the crop. The best of the best. A platform for the masterest master race. The thing that makes you broke but you’ll have no regrets whatsoever because those 28 fast cores is too fast.
Intel Xeon W-3175X or wallet ripper is a beast, but the price i exspect this to get makes it a bad deal for most people. 2990WX seems like a better choise.
I wonder if AMD can produce-or have coded for them-similarly optimised raytracing software?
It seems very strange to me. I would expect it to support 768 GB (with registered DIMMs) like its LGA3647 brothers and sisters.
Looks good though, yes id have one but no, i would rather buy a new car well i say new but being fair it would be far from new for three to five grand.
The masterace is on crack apparently, im all for cores but not at this kind of cost.
And I doubt this will play Any game the fastest of all the platforms , likely, it's little intel bro will game way better ,as will the midrange imho.
This claims 3.1 GHz - 4.3 GHz at 255 W (14nm++)
TDPs usually are a little "optimistic" these days, but I don't think it's that far off.
This thing isn't an HEDT, it's for workstations, render farms and massive servers, for the rest of us it's a WOW and move along to something more realistic, like a supercar.
Intel seem to be now Reusing Socket Names
This monster will be interesting only with ln2 from my point of view.
Also, this won't be very fast in most use cases. Even an 8700K will beat it in the vast majority of normal use cases. This is a server/workstation/render rig CPU, just like the 2990WX. They're irrelevant and largely useless for anything else.