Thursday, September 5th 2019
Intel to Increase Cores-to-the-Dollar Across the Board with Cascade Lake-X?
Intel is preparing to increase core-counts across the board with its upcoming Core X "Cascade Lake-X" HEDT processor family, launching next month. The first indication of this comes from an Intel slide that claims a 1.74 to 2.09x increase in performance-per-Dollar over "Skylake-X." The "Cascade Lake" microarchitecture already made its debut in the enterprise market as Intel's 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processors, and its IPC is similar clock-to-clock, to its predecessor (Skylake).
If Intel is claiming such performance-per-Dollar increases, it only points to a significant increase in core counts to the Dollar (think 16-core at $999, 28-core at $1999, etc.). Adding value to these chips are certain new AI accelerating instruction sets, such as DLBoost, support for Optane DC Persistent Memory, increased memory clock-speeds, and higher CPU clocks across the board compared to the Core X 9000-series. The Core X "Cascade Lake-X" processor family debuts this October.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
If Intel is claiming such performance-per-Dollar increases, it only points to a significant increase in core counts to the Dollar (think 16-core at $999, 28-core at $1999, etc.). Adding value to these chips are certain new AI accelerating instruction sets, such as DLBoost, support for Optane DC Persistent Memory, increased memory clock-speeds, and higher CPU clocks across the board compared to the Core X 9000-series. The Core X "Cascade Lake-X" processor family debuts this October.
50 Comments on Intel to Increase Cores-to-the-Dollar Across the Board with Cascade Lake-X?
This is all marketing bullshit for multitude of reasons.
medium.com/performance-at-intel/real-world-performance-ifa-without-compromise-9f2dff21c277
They also claim the Core i7-8500Y is better for Windows than a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850...
I mean, really?
Also, where are the real world benchmarks in that comparison?
The only "loads" Intel ever cares about are the mega-butt LOADS of money that they charge for their stuff :cry: :eek: :(
Intel is more about performance at a premium much like apple is premium for the brand (which is arguably worse)
As for AMD, I think they have come along way forwards in their fight against intel, but I also think they still have some more work to do before they can claim a solid, significant win in the overall cpu market... when that happens, my money will go to them instead
Intel is (probably intentionally) confusing the issue in terms of what is fixed in which model but this is their table:
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/engineering-new-protections-into-hardware.html
www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/architecture-and-technology/avx-512-overview.html
cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-processors-come-to-google-and-to-google-cloud
Also if you'd like to talk about the article the reason they opted for AMD in the first place is that their workload is influenced by memory bandwidth, which still makes intel the better choice and the Xeon Platinum 9282 supports 12 memory channels versus 8 on EYPC.
Source? The article you just linked:
Secondly, to the individuals trying to silence criticism, not directed at you, towards people or objects not connected to you, why do you even care? Why have you become a self-appointed defender of the status quo for no discerbly logical or rational reason? Why has the user I'm replying to seemingly taken offense to this other user pointing out a truth we all know (Intel is a ripoff) and then proceeded to become an apologist for Intel's actions? Does he own thousands of shares in Intel and for some mystifying reason think that silencing a single comment, partially made in jest, will protect his investment? Probably not, so why? Is he trying to motivate the possible regret he may feel for the Intel cpu sitting in his computer right now, and to justify his purchase, ex post facto, he's going to justify it on the abstracted basis that owningan Intel cpu is about being apart of an upper class or an elite group (the old "apple tax" justification) instead of being about what a CPU is intended to provide: performance with value?
There's pervasive psychosis permeating through the tech community in general with its most virulent form manifesting in the PC hardware community. My best deduction is that it revolves around social identity theory and in/out group psychology which has somehow mutated the act of purchasing a piece of hardware from a typical consumer decision based on quantifiable factors like "price to performance" into choosing sides in a war of genocide and ethnic cleansing sealed with a blood oath....somehow, buying a cpu or videocard has become the equivalent of turning the consumer into a samurai ready to defend the honor of his shogun that goes by a brand's name. It's become increasingly difficult to ignore this behavior as it's to the point where everyone knows that as soon as a tech news sites newest articles load, if Intel, AMD, or Nvidia are mentioned, the comments section is going to be a bloodletting in which a Cadre of militant psychos will resort to any behavior to find an opportunity to unleash the killing blow. Is there anywhere on the internet where it's possible to find fruitful conversation not poisoned by these "people" who've adopted their videocard's manufacturer as their infallible overlord and diety?
Also, this kind of shift in the server market should scare Intel. That's where they make most of their money, not on HEDT parts.
Also Linux really? Not everyone runs Linux on a daily system. And all it takes is intel to move a Xeon Platinum 9282 to the Cascade Lake-X platform on the ultra premium HEDT and unlock it then a 64 core threadripper will definitely not lead for very long.
It does not change the fact that there are areas where Intel Xeons are more competitive than simple core count and frequency comparison would suggest. 14nm.