Intel Xeon W9-3495 Sapphire Rapids HEDT CPU with 56 Cores and 112 Threads Appears

[Ellertis]

For a HEDT lover its good and for desktop consumer line its bad cause they will stuck to 8 P-cores

I dont get the criticism of 'only 8p cores'. If you buy a high end cpu, and need a lot of multithread performance. Why do you care if you've p or e cores, besides e cores will provide more performance/die size/power

I hope that this chip forces AMD to re-apply Threadripper chips to the consumer market.

Isn't high end AM5 bassicaly it? You've twice the bandwidth of pcie lanes over zen2/3, more ram bandwidth, 16 faster cores, even more with latter zen archs, except big.little ushering in.

 

[kapone32]

Isn't high end AM5 bassicaly it? You've twice the bandwidth of pcie lanes over zen2/3, more ram bandwidth, 16 faster cores, even more with latter zen archs, except big.little ushering in.

From what I have seen of AM5 there will be even less PCie expansion. It is also that you pay in some cases a $100 premium to get a Threadripper board that no AM5 board could do in terms of flexibility.