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
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Back on topic, While Xeon CPU's can be used to game very well, they are directly aimed at the professional/business/enterprise sectors so ASUS releasing a board under it's ROG badge seem like a shameless and equally pointless money grab..