Wednesday, February 12th 2025
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Intel Xeon "Granite Rapids-W" Mainstream & Expert HEDT CPUs Leaked
Unannounced Intel processor families have emerged online over the past week—one source, Jaykihn, has unearthed a treasure trove of speculative mobile SKUs. Today's discovery pushes into the enterprise market segment; focusing on Team Blue's "Granite Rapids-W" (GNR-W) platform, likely equipped with Redwood Cove cores. The latest leak suggests an upcoming emergence of "Mainstream" and "Expert" workstation-oriented product tiers, allegedly prepared with the company's rumored W890 motherboard chipset. Past generations of "Xeon W" HEDT processor families have rolled out with entry-level and high-end offerings.
The leaker reckons that the mainstream Intel Granite Rapids-W "Xeon W" lineup will arrive with 4-channel memory support and 80 PCIe Gen 5 Lanes. Team Blue's higher-end "Expert" tier is anticipated with 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes and 8-channel memory support. In addition to leaking processor information, Jaykihn outlined basic details regarding the W890 chipset—they believe that board designs will have access to 24 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, as well as 8 Gen 4 lanes for Intel's proprietary link (DMI) between northbridge and southbridge. The leaker did not divulge details of upcoming socket types—Team Blue is notorious for its elaborate rollout out of multiple LGA platforms.
Sources:
Wccftech, Jaykihn Tweet
The leaker reckons that the mainstream Intel Granite Rapids-W "Xeon W" lineup will arrive with 4-channel memory support and 80 PCIe Gen 5 Lanes. Team Blue's higher-end "Expert" tier is anticipated with 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes and 8-channel memory support. In addition to leaking processor information, Jaykihn outlined basic details regarding the W890 chipset—they believe that board designs will have access to 24 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, as well as 8 Gen 4 lanes for Intel's proprietary link (DMI) between northbridge and southbridge. The leaker did not divulge details of upcoming socket types—Team Blue is notorious for its elaborate rollout out of multiple LGA platforms.
7 Comments on Intel Xeon "Granite Rapids-W" Mainstream & Expert HEDT CPUs Leaked
What about availability? Can we hope for a launch by summer? Or are we looking at late Q3++? (which probably means market availability Q1 2026).
I would assume these will feature DDR5-6400 and DDR5-8800(MRDIMM) memory. Well the current gen Sapphire Rapids starts at $359, just a bit shy of a billion…
And it's very competitively priced against Threadripper, especially considering it has higher performance per core than the Threadripper 7000 series.
Unfortunately though, Xeon W is not available in many markets, and has very limited availability overall compared to Threadripper (which isn't widely available either).
But on the positive side, motherboards can be found at times at acceptable prices, like ~$500 (+VAT).