Intel Xeon W 'Sapphire Rapids': Up to 56 Cores with EMIB Packaging | Talking Tech

Up to 56 cores and 112 threads on a single chip – that’s the all-new Intel® Xeon® W processor, codenamed Sapphire Rapids. Made for workstations that are hungry for data, Xeon W is the high-end computing foundation that today’s professionals require for the future of computing. Learn more from Jonathan Patton, Workstation Product Marketing Engineer, in this episode of Talking Tech.

Other platform features include:

• Frequencies up to 4.8 gigahertz with Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0
• Up to 105 megabytes of L3 cache
• Eight channels of DDR5 RDIMM memory support enables up to 4 terabytes of memory capacity
• ECC memory and RAS technologies
• Up to 112 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes on Xeon W-3400 processors and up to 64 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes on Xeon W-2400 processors
• Integrated Intel® Wi-Fi 6E
• Comprehensive overclocking support for unlocked processors – including DDR5 XMP 3.0 RDIMM memory overclocking
• 3rd generation Intel® Deep Learning Boost (AMX, Bfloat16)
• Intel vPro® enterprise technologies

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Sapphire Rapids for workstations
02:29 Workloads suited for Xeon W workstations
04:04 Differences between Sapphire Rapids for servers and workstations
05:21 Xeon W-2400 vs. Xeon W-3400
07:09 Comparing the processor dies
09:37 Putting the XCC tiles together
11:30 EMIB enables Xeon W-3400 to scale
12:48 What is performance like?
13:37 Raptor Lake vs. Sapphire Rapids
19:06 AVX512 and AMX extensions
21:20 Unlocked processors for overclocking and tuning
24:09 I/O on Xeon W platform
25:30 LGA 4677 socket and W790 chipset motherboard
29:00 Working with industry and ecosystem partners
31:14 Excitement to bring the ultimate workstation to market

Learn more on the new Intel Xeon W on the Intel Newsroom: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-new-xeon-workstation-processor.html

Mobile 13th Gen Core processors are here: https://youtu.be/Fq1P73bdilY

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