Tuesday, March 12th 2019
Intel to Refresh its LGA2066 HEDT Platform This Summer?
Intel is rumored to refresh its high-end desktop (HEDT) platforms this Summer with new products based on the "Cascade Lake" microarchitecture. Intel now has two HEDT platforms, LGA2066 and LGA3647. The new "Cascade Lake-X" silicon will target the LGA2066 platform, and could see the light of the day by June, on the sidelines of Computex 2019. A higher core-count model with 6-channel memory, will be launched for the LGA3647 socket as early as April. So if you've very recently fronted $3,000 on a Xeon W-3175X, here's a bucket of remorse. Both chips will be built on existing 14 nm process, and will bring innovations such as Optane Persistent Memory support, Intel Deep Learning Boost (DLBOOST) extensions with VNNI instruction-set, and hardware mitigation against more variants of "Meltdown" and "Spectre."
Elsewhere in the industry, and sticking with Intel, we've known since November 2018 of the existence of "Comet Lake," which is a 10-core silicon for the LGA1151 platform, and which is yet another "Skylake" derivative built on existing 14 nm process. This chip is real, and will be Intel's last line of defense against AMD's first 7 nm "Zen 2" socket AM4 processors, with core-counts of 12-16.
Sources:
momomo_us (Twitter), ChipHell
Elsewhere in the industry, and sticking with Intel, we've known since November 2018 of the existence of "Comet Lake," which is a 10-core silicon for the LGA1151 platform, and which is yet another "Skylake" derivative built on existing 14 nm process. This chip is real, and will be Intel's last line of defense against AMD's first 7 nm "Zen 2" socket AM4 processors, with core-counts of 12-16.
44 Comments on Intel to Refresh its LGA2066 HEDT Platform This Summer?
It makes sense to start fresh when (if :D) Ice Lake shows up. Will they drop Core i3/5/7? Feels kind of outdated, it's well recognized though.
Looks like ill have to wait to 2020 for a lower nm part from intel. X58 gonna survive for 2019 it seems as well.
An almost 10 year old 6 core is going to be demolished in tons of workloads by newer chips.
I don't get people that are "satisfied" with old tech, yet waits and waits for the brand new and shiny stuff. If you really need this, how can you be satisfied with what you got.
Instead of splashing 2K every 8-10 year, I'd rather splash 1K every 4-5 years.
32nm is what I'd consider as seriously outdated at this point, so I just found it funny that you consider 14nm as old tech.
It's not like we're talking a brand new arch when Intel actually puts out something on 10nm or better. It will be a shrink of existing arch. So you'll see better efficiency and maybe higher clocks. Nothing groundbreaking with insane IPC uplift.
FYI Intel's refined 14nm node is more advanced than GloFo 12nm
9900K is already eating into HEDT territory and there's many "HEDT" CPU's that are worse.
1 mac pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) 1x x5680
1 x79 E5-2690v2 (10 core)
1 x79 E5-2667v2 (8 core) PCI-E m.2 NVME
1 79x E5-1607v2
2x 79 HP Z420's E5-2667v1 and E5-2650v1
1x HP Z400 x5675
they all work great; 2 best rigs handle more than 2x-3x the workload
of the i7's and i5's they replaced.
upgraded by buying older high-end stuff.
Sold all of the i7's and i5's i had.
haven't missed out on any of this "great new tech" that everyone preaches...
I don't see the need to upgrade for awhile.
And when I do; I'll buy more HP Z440's or Z640's when the price comes down...
just my opinion...
But yeah Ice Lake should bring bigger than usual perf jump, should launch in mid to late 2020, so maybe HEDT will get it by 2H 2021
The performance difference per clock and the increased clockspeed and cores of modern processors will run circles around what you've got in anything. In fact, I would bet that the 8700K will beat that that e5-2667v2 stock for stock, even in multi-threading while also using less power. It could give that 2690 a run for its money as well.
I am happy that what you have works, but make no mistake about it, modern processors are a lot faster at everything they do compared to tech that came out a few/several years ago. There won't be a huge difference on the ivy bridge, but the clock speeds and efficiencies are worth noting too. ;)
Personally, I wouldn't spend a lot of cash right now on any new tech; I think were about
to go leaps and bounds ahead in the near future..
I would just encourage to look at the price vs performance of buying some used parts
vs new. I could build a light-med budget gaming rig based on a used Z420 and a new Rx570 or 1050
for less than the price of a 8700k.
A lot of peeps are tight on money...to them
120FPS gaming is not as a big deal as not playing at all for lack of funding..
Most custom rigs are going to be in the woods of $800-$1000 for something mid to low grade...
I built custom rigs for years; until I discovered the used workstation market.
I agree these new chips can't be found in used workstations yet. And they are fast.
But like you stated; different people, different needs; and most important different
budgets...
And they finally normalized the lanes across the 9 series unlike the split up on previous generations.
Zen 2 is interesting, but we need to see where it lands clocks wise and such. But I don't see leaps and bounds in the future. Not at all.
X5690 at 4,34 GHz paired with 1600 CL8 T1 TRFC88 (3x4GB .. might upgrade to 8GB eventually) and Titan Xp. Yea sure I wondered about ugprade, but apart nVME I lack nothing honestly. If I upgrade, its going to be X399. Intel is fine, but recently those security holes start to be a bit disturbing. Also gap in real gaming is actually small and I can use some extra cores for coding.
Cascade Lake (-SP) was promised for last year, but is pretty much MIA. It promised cache improvements and higher clock speeds (for Cascade Lake-SP), but this is the first I'm hearing in a while about a Cascade Lake-X.