Intel Xeon W "Sapphire Rapids" Workstation Processor Lineup Leaked

[btarunr]

Ahead of its launch, the SKU table of Intel's Xeon W "Sapphire Rapids" HEDT/Workstation-class processor lineup was leaked to the web. The lineup is horizontally split between the Xeon W-3400 series, and the Xeon W-2400 series. The W-2400 series come in rather modest CPU core-counts ranging between 6-core/12-thread and 24-core/48-thread. These chips are characterized by a 4-channel DDR5 memory interface (8 sub-channels); and a 64-lane PCIe Gen 5 I/O. The W-3400 series, on the other hand, ranges between 12-core/24-thread and 56-core/112-thread, nearly maxing out the core-count of the "Sapphire Rapids" MCM. These chips feature a massive 8-channel (16 sub-channel) DDR5 memory interface, and a 112-lane PCIe Gen 5 I/O. Prices for the lineup start at a surprisingly low $360 for the base W-2400 series SKU; while the top W-2400 series SKU is priced at $2,189. The W-3400 series ranges between $1,189 for the base 12-core/24-thread part, and goes all the way up to $5,889 for the top 56-core part. All models feature ECC memory support.



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[ks2]

Great Value!

 

[TheGuruStud]

Great Value!

Where's the venue tour list, oh great comedian?

 

[ThomasK]

At this point, the core count will be relatively lacking to whatever AMD launches.

 

[Slizzo]

Great Value!

It's the PCI-E lanes and memory topology you want to take a look at. 112 lanes from CPU and 8 channel memory are kinda significant.

 

[dgianstefani]

Great Value!

Yes, it actually is if you understand the concept of HEDT / Workstation hardware.

Workstation class chips with ECC, eight channel DDR5 support, four to five times the PCIe lanes, and other accelerators are indeed great value for these prices.

 

[Daven]

This should have been released two years ago along side Epyc Zen 3. Now I’m not sure how its justified against 96 Zen 4 cores unless the ‘accelerators’ really benefit your work flow.

Edit: Looks priced competitively against Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 series and equivalent core count Zen 4 Epyc 1P products. But its gotta kill Intel that they were able to sell 28 core Cascade Lake Xeon W’s for $7,453 back in 2019.

 

[bwanaaa]

Hmmm....is it overclockable? I guess the ECC is not. 2445x is $1390 and 30 mB L3. maybe useful for video editing and some gaming.

 

[AnotherReader]

Yes, it actually is if you understand the concept of HEDT / Workstation hardware.

Workstation class chips with ECC, eight channel DDR5 support, four to five times the PCIe lanes, and other accelerators are indeed great value for these prices.

I agree that these are good value, but I would be surprised if any of these SKUs had any accelerators enabled.

 

[ir_cow]

No one will be overclocking these. Seriously you're looking at intel w3175x all over again. 500 watts stock and 1000w+ OC.

For actual use. w5-3435X - $1589 is a good choice. It will still OC "some" and probably match a stock 13900K, but also has 112 PCIe 5 lanes. That's the important part here.

 

[Jism]

The 350W is misleading. Some ramp up to 420W.

 

[Chrispy_]

Waiting for reviews.
Intel has a lot to prove - mainly in the efficiency department.
The W5-3425 looks promising with 8-channel RAM at that price, could be a decent base for large-dataset GPU compute nodes.

 

[boomheadshot8]

still no 64 core intel ?