Is there any confirmation on s1151 v2 besides the Korean source?
Intel to launch 18-core Core i9-7980XE CPU (+ 16 & 14C SKUs)
Dont know. 4x 1800x in an 32c Epyc is 2k and we know it can even fit in a 180w tdp. Where is this going to end? Who is the customers for that? Its not a battle i would enter with huge monolitic dies. So probably i guess you are right and price it for the few. But it looks like a landslide change in strategy. Interesting times.Nice. I wonder how they will price these. 18-core will probably be over 2k...
There's one detail missing (let's save some surprises for the event tomorrow), but I can say this: prices are really fair for your typical Intel
From various unconfirmed reports, Intel is set to launch a new Xeon Gold lineup. These new Xeon Gold CPUs are meant to offer higher core counts than the usual HEDT platform which peaks right now at 10 cores. Users who want more would have to pay a very hefty premium for the E5 and E7s server and workstation class chips. However, there may be many prosumers who simply want a lot of cores without all of the expensive validation and enterprise features. This is where Xeon Gold comes in.
The first chip is the new Xeon Gold 6150 featuring 18 CPU cores, with HyperThreading for a total of 36 logical CPUs. L2 cache comes in at a hefty 1MB per core for 18MB and L3 is 24.75MB. Clock speeds are reported as 2.7 GHz base and 3.7 GHz boost. Of course, we have quad channel DDR4 memory as well. While it falls short of the top end E7 v4 chips which have 24 cores, it is a substantial upgrade over the HEDT platform. I also expect it will have many enterprise features like extra QPI links to be disabled as well as limited to single socket platforms. It will be interesting to see if this rumour turns out to be true and who would need such a CPU.
Really amazing how Intel was able to keep this secret until (almost) Computex. Everyone I talked to just a few days ago reiterated the previous leak, even Intel in the presentation below.
8th Gen Intel Core 'Coffee Lake-S' + Z370 Chipset to Launch in August/September (4C and 6C 'K' Options)
Rest of the lineup, including a dual-core variant (native 2C KBL-S die? cut down 4C CFL-S die?), will follow in Q1-2018.
Intel to launch 18-core Core i9-7980XE CPU (+ 16 & 14C SKUs)
https://videocardz.com/69900/exclusive-intel-to-launch-18-core-core-i9-7980xe-cpu
Really amazing how Intel was able to keep this secret until (almost) Computex. Everyone I talked to just a few days ago reiterated the previous leak, even Intel in the presentation below.
8th Gen Intel Core 'Coffee Lake-S' + Z370 Chipset to Launch in August/September (4C and 6C 'K' Options)
Rest of the lineup, including a dual-core variant (native 2C KBL-S die? cut down 4C CFL-S die?), will follow in Q1-2018.
So sorry but Xeon Platinum tops out at 28 cores.Can't wait for Intel to release a 34/36 cores CPU to laugh in Naples face.
Well, this is great and all, but honestly, I see very little market for threadripper or these >10 core chips. More important is the pricing of the 6 and 8 core models. With the indicated clockspeeds, seems to me the sweet spot will be the 8 core chip, if the price is right.
With the indicated clockspeeds, seems to me the sweet spot will be the 8 core chip, if the price is right.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Skylake-Codename-259478/News/Bis-zu-18-Kerne-bestaetigt-und-nicht-verloetet-1228994/&sandbox=1PC Games Hardware has been tapped from a confidential source, so that the line-up is in principle correct, ie products and core numbers. In addition, we were confirmed that the CPUs should not be soldered against the hitherto common practice with the HEDT platform.
Also MCC is work of the devil*, cache latency/bw, intercore bw/lat are not uniform. That 10 core LCC is where uniform perf is. One might want to run NUMA on those core clusters to extract max perf. Plus memory controllers will be connected to clusters in the way that remains to be seen and some cores might see strange mem latencies.
* higher ranking devil is working on AMD chips, where "optimal" Numa node is as small as 4