Intel Granite Rapids SKUs Detailed With Up To 128 Cores and 500 W TDP

[GFreeman]

The newest leak from X (formerly Twitter) has detailed five Intel Granite Rapids SKUs, including the 6980P, 6979P, 6972P, 6952P, and the 6960P. Featuring up to 128 CPU cores and up to 504 MB of cache, these show that Intel Granite Rapids will double the amount of cores compared to the Emerald Rapids SKUs.

The newest leak coming from Jaykihn over at X, following the previous leak that detailed the most powerful SKU. The 6980P will pack 128 cores, pack 504 MB of cache, have a 2.0 GHz base frequency and a massive 500 W TDP rating. The rest of the SKUs have lower core count, ending with the 6960P, which comes with 72 cores, 432 MB of cache, but also a higher 2.7 GHz base frequency.



In case you missed it, Intel Granite Rapids is the next-generation performance-oriented server architecture expected to launch alongside Sierra Forest server chips, with both sharing the same new Xeon 6 branding. While Sierra Forest will be designed entirely with efficiency cores (E-cores), Intel Granite Ridge will feature Redwood Cove performance cores (P-cores), bringing more L1 cache, higher IPC performance, support for the MXFP4 data format, and promising some impressive performance improvements for compute intensive and AI workloads. According to Intel, Granite Rapids should provide up to 2x to 3x higher performance improvement and up to 2.8x higher memory bandwidth.

So far, Granite Rapids is expected to launch in Q3 this year, with more higher-end SKUs coming in early 2025.

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[ZoneDymo]

Little typo, Redmond Cove not Cover

also at the top, personally it makes more sense to type "X, (better know as Twitter)".

Lastly I cant wait for AMD Epyc to get some competition but man that TDP.....lets see if Intel does achieve more than parity by blasting it with power....

 

[Caring1]

Does Intel throw in a free chiller?

 

[Lycanwolfen]

Hoesntly Intel should just take a few Xeon's make them 32 core around 4.5 ghz and release them as desktop CPU's

 

[LittleBro]

Why so high TDP? AMD has better solution which requires much less power:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4th-generation-9004-and-8004-series/amd-epyc-9754.html

 

[Daven]

At least Intel realizes that it can't win with accelerators. It's slow increase in core counts killed the Xeon compared to Epyc. Now AMD and Intel will have the same number of cores/threads in their 'classic' core server CPU. The battle between Turin and Granite Rapids will be epyc!!!

 

[Philaphlous]

I have a prediction that AI will replace Crypto mining as the leader of energy consumption come ~2027-2030... 500TDP is nuts... and here I thought ~150TDP was bad...

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Lastly I cant wait for AMD Epyc to get some competition but man that TDP.....

Why? I mean that seriously. Intel, despite their hiccups in the past few years, still completely dominates the x86 market in all segments: client, mobility, and enterprise....AMD isn't even close to 50% in any segment.

In fact, and I mean this STRICTLY from the POV of a consumer, it would be in our best interest for Intel to continue losing marketshare in all of those segments to AMD in order to get us as close as possible to a 50%/50% split.

Competition is only good insofar as it benefits consumers, and what would benefit consumers is Intel continuing to lose marketshare....once they give up half the market to AMD, then they can start giving AMD some competition.

At least Intel realizes that it can't win with accelerators. It's slow increase in core counts killed the Xeon compared to Epyc. Now AMD and Intel will have the same number of cores/threads in their 'classic' core server CPU. The battle between Turin and Granite Rapids will be epyc!!!

Exactly, anyone remember those Xeons with HBM on package? If you didn't, I'm not surprise because despite having upwards of 64GB of HBM, they still got their clock cleaned by Epyc and Epyc-X (3D V-Cache)

 

[watzupken]

Redwood Cover is used in Meteor Lake? If so, if there's yield issues with Meteor Lake which is much smaller, won't this be impacted?

 

[Wirko]

Redwood Cover is used in Meteor Lake? If so, if there's yield issues with Meteor Lake which is much smaller, won't this be impacted?

Why would the choice of the core affect yields? Well, the physical size of the core does matter, but did you mean anything else?
[and no, it's not like the chip is covered with an IHS made of redwood]

 

[Jism]

Why so high TDP? AMD has better solution which requires much less power:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4th-generation-9004-and-8004-series/amd-epyc-9754.html

What, is it benchmarked yet?

Intel is still the king in single threading - but multithreading AMD beat it's around the bush.

500W is nothing knowing that one chip can perhaps replace a bunch of servers and thus less overall power required for the same workload.

I switched from XEONS to EPYC as well; i have only positive remarks in regard of the EPYC lineup.