Do you need to render a movie or process photos, you just need computing power? Ever dreamed of a workstation processor that would take advantage of the new DDR5 RAM and most of the new technologies? We have the answer to this Intel Xeon W9-3495X, which worthily competes with the AMD Threadripper PRO 5995WX. The premiere is just around the corner, and we know its specifications and results in Geekbench.

Have you dreamed of a processor for your workstation or just need computing power? Intel will present on February 15 new series of processors for special tasks, Intel Xeon W-3400 and W-2400.

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We have known for some time that Intel is preparing two series of products for workstations, namely W-3400 and W-2400. The specifications of these processors are well known at this point. The flagship processor of Sapphire Rapids will be the Intel Xeon W9-3495X. The system has 56 cores and 112 logical threads using HyperThreading. The base clock speed of the cores is 1.9 GHz, where in Boost mode it can reach up to 4.6 GHz. In addition, on board the new Xeon we find 105 MB of L3 cache and 56 MB of L2 cache. Additionally, the processor has an 8-channel memory controller for up to 4TB DDR5 4800MHz and 112 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes. All this with a TDP of 350 W.

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The Geekbench test took place on a Supermicro X13SWA-TF board with 128 GB DDR5 RAM and a clock speed of 4800 MHz. As we can see, the Intel Xeon W9-3495X is 15% slower in the single-core test than the competitor AMD Threadripper PRO 5995WX. When comparing multi-threaded performance, we have to use the average results of AMD CPUs. This is due to the fact that in the Geekbench database we will find a lot of measurements that have very large fluctuations in results. With this assumption, AMD Threadripper PRO 5995WX achieves in multithreaded performance: ~32000 points (based on 25 tests), although it can reach 40000 points in some tests. This would mean that the Intel Xeon W9-3495X, reaching 36990 points, is 15.8% more efficient on average.

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In the end, it all depends on how the new Xeon will be used and its MSRP price, which unfortunately we do not know yet. We do know that the processor will support AVX-512 and AMX instructions, which will certainly translate into better performance in training Deep Learning algorithms. Unfortunately, at the expense of power consumption and thus higher temperatures of the processor cores. Intel has already planned the official premiere for February 15, where, in addition to the aforementioned Xeon W9-3495X, we will also see other representatives of the W-3400 and W-2400 series.

Source: Videocardz