Granite Rapids 120C - Dual Socket spotted
Kudos to them if they need ONLY a 1kW PSU to power that.Winter IS coming so that would be nice to keep you warm at night.
That's odd. Why release that when they have Emerald Rapids? Are these meant to be cheaper?For those who are interested, Sapphire Rapids Refresh is now launched (workstation CPUs).
Yes, this is Intel's way to give price cuts. Move everything down one price rung, slightly adjust parameters to better match current yields/performance, give it a new number, and keep selling.That's odd. Why release that when they have Emerald Rapids? Are these meant to be cheaper?
I'll play devil's advocate here. The article says Intel will deliver more info during a Sept launch event. It doesn't quite say during Granite Rapid's launch event. Lunar Lake is launching in September, and that quote could technically be true if Intel delivers Granite Rapids info during the Lunar Lake launch.Granite rapids coming earlyIntel confirms Xeon 6 will launch in September - VideoCardz.com
Intel Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” in September The new Xeon series are to feature up to 128 cores. Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Xeon CPU series will be launched in September. This is the first product featuring the new naming schema adopted for data-center CPUs moving forward. Intel...videocardz.com
Great stock price too!Great ai performanceIntel Xeon 6 CPUs Deliver 90% Uplift In AI Versus 5th Gen Xeon, Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids-AP" Launches In September
Intel shared the first MLPerf performance figures of its Xeon 6 CPUs while confirming that the Xeon 6900P chips will launch in September.wccftech.com
Depending on what do you mean by great. It's good that having twice the number of cores it is able to achieve twice the performance vs Gen5 part [since we don't have other comparison points based on this article] but on the other hand this is expected for a task that in general scales well with number of cores. It would be nice to have detailed data about the platform too to see if the memory bandwidth available to both Gen5 and Gen6 platform was comparable etc.Great ai performanceIntel Xeon 6 CPUs Deliver 90% Uplift In AI Versus 5th Gen Xeon, Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids-AP" Launches In September
Intel shared the first MLPerf performance figures of its Xeon 6 CPUs while confirming that the Xeon 6900P chips will launch in September.wccftech.com
Well others are saying Rogue River Forest are still on the roadmap so take that with a grain of salt.A Xeon server that will be a collector's item soon!
Just like Lakefield!
Emerald Rapids is DDR5-5600. Granite Rapids gets the new MCR DDR5 with DDR5-8800 capability. In server applications it needs the extra memory bandwidth to scale with core count increase.It would be nice to have detailed data about the platform too to see if the memory bandwidth available to both Gen5 and Gen6 platform was comparable etc.
This rumor was debunked ages ago.
You sure about Clear in Q3? Because they didn't say it's lead silicon on 18A and Pantherlake is coming first. It would be very good, but that would mean PTL on even Q2, which doesn't make sense to me. That gives just 9 month lifespan for Lunar/Arrow.This rumor was debunked ages ago.
It's SRF-AP in Q1 2025, CLF in Q3 (iirc), and then RRF somewhere in 2026/7 timeframe.
I think CWF might come first, from what I remember it's coming late summer/early fall (Basically exactly 1 year from now).You sure about Clear in Q3? Because they didn't say it's lead silicon on 18A and Pantherlake is coming first. It would be very good, but that would mean PTL on even Q2, which doesn't make sense to me. That gives just 9 month lifespan for Lunar/Arrow.
PTL on BTS and CWF maybe October makes more sense.
Thats sad, considering Turin will be announced at any moment (I actually have one, just no bios, so it won't post yet).The 88 core 350W Granite Rapids is supposed to have 40% improvement at the same power, and if you look at average differences, then that's enough to catch up mostly with Genoa.
The big -AP version with similar core count should be much more competitive with Turin. It won't be #1 but they won't be relegated to mid end like Sappire/Emerald anymore. I'd say 10-20% difference.Thats sad, considering Turin will be announced at any moment (I actually have one, just no bios, so it won't post yet).
Granite Rapids will not be competitive with Turin. At least not in workloads that concern potential DCG clients. Also it's dependent on an advanced node that isn't producing in the same volume as Intel 7. Intel will not be able to produce as much Granite Rapids as they can Sapphire or Emerald Rapids.
Ehhhhh agree to disagree, this is a foundry thread so I'll leave it at that. Just take a look at the availability of Sierra Forest and that should tell you how "good" it is and how capable Intel is of supplying the market (to the extent that the market wants it at all).
Yeah sure. Intel is gonna have to prove that with hard numbers. Anything else is just hype and noise at this point. Their foundry business is not positioned to replace the enormous volume of Skylake-SP/Cascade Lake-SP that they pushed onto the market years ago, and they've even struggled to reach those productions volumes with 10nm/Intel 7 (IceLake-SP, Sapphire Rapids-SP, Emerald Rapids). Now that Intel 7 datacentre product volume is maybe stabilizing, the market has already moved onwards. Nobody in their right mind expects Intel to ramp up volume on 20a/18a products AND to leapfrog Turin or Turin Dense. If it's possible, Intel has to prove it.
If they are buying the ARM server parts, then they are buying E core Xeons. Which is the reason for them existing in the first place.I could see the E Core Xeons going away at least for the time being. The customers who are buying Intel these days are seemingly not interested in E Core Xeons. Plus you almost have to think that Intel is cutting back on 18A capacity to save money.
I think that it may be due to the lack of any avx-512. Server use that a lot.I could see the E Core Xeons going away at least for the time being. The customers who are buying Intel these days are seemingly not interested in E Core Xeons. Plus you almost have to think that Intel is cutting back on 18A capacity to save money.