Intel Prepares 500-Watt Xeon 6 SKUs of Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest

[xtreemchaos]

There is no need for water cooling.

trust me bud in 10 years or more when they come down in price so us old Xeon players can have them mine will be watercooled, thats if i still here of course .

 

[Warigator]

When your customers are Amazon, Microsoft, facebook, Oracle, and all the others who do real work not idiotic video games these things make sense.

Companies and businesses, which are in the "real work" of offering lots of people stuff they often don't need and addicting people to their services, not helping them much.

The important and concerning truth is, that true happines and fulfillment comes from playing good and finished video games with good friends together.

Spending time with well-made video games of your own choice is in other words choosing your own way of the spending time that you actually enjoy.

Making lots of money is just succumbing to society's pressures of being a "succesful person". I especially dislike cryptocurrencies people. Greed, greed, greed. Awful.

 

[DavidC1]

What all core frequency are we getting for 128 P cores to ONLY be at 500W? I mean it's infinitely better than cRaptor Lake's energy efficiency (out of the box) and I doubt Epyc Turin with 128 Zen 5 cores will much less either.

Turin is also going to 500-600W TDP. They know with increasing compute demand coming at the same time with ever decreasing Moore's Law benefits, TDP increase is needed.

...good lord, wasn't Sierra Forest supposed to be targeted at efficiency or something? What with it being made entirely out of E-cores?

Efficiency doesn't mean low power. Otherwise, something like a Raspberry Pi would be the "most efficient". Efficiency is a relative unit of measurement.

In this case, efficiency = performance per unit of watt. These Sierra Forest Xeons should be very high efficiency, one of the highest if not highest.