In the past few years, AMD processors have challenged and even surpassed Intel in various fields. Desktops, notebooks, and servers are all like this. Especially in the field of desktop enthusiasts, thread tearers directly crushed Core X and disappeared. Intel’s in this field The previous generation product was the tenth generation Core X series in October 2019, with a 14nm process and a maximum of 18 cores.
According to the latest roadmap exposed by VC,Intel plans to release the next-generation enthusiast Core X series later in the second quarter of 2022, The Sapphire Rapids Xeon series, born out of servers, is likely to be at or before the Taipei Computer Show 2022.
This means that after nearly three years, Intel is finally ready to face off with AMD again in the fever field.
However, just a few days ago, Intel admitted that Sapphire Rapids, the fourth-generation scalable Xeon, will be postponed to mass production in the first quarter of next year, the second quarter of next year, and release sometime in the first half of the year.
Considering that the Core X series generally has to be launched some time after the corresponding Xeon debut, I don’t know if this means that the new generation of Core X will also be postponed, maybe it will be next fall or even the end of next year, maybe it will have to Synchronize with Raptor Lake 13th generation Core Duo.
The specific specifications of the Sapphire Rapids version of Core X are not marked on the roadmap, but they are written.The matching chipset is W790——At the end of this year, the Alder Lake 12-generation Core will have a 700 series chipset, such as the high-end Z790.
There is also a saying that in order to prevent everyone from forgetting the Core X series,Intel intends to change the suffix of the 12th-generation Core’s unlocked multiplier model from K to X, such as i9-12900X, Then, in this case, the original Core X series has to be renamed to the Core W series?
In any case, time does not wait for anyone, and opponents do not wait for anyone——The AMD Zen3 family of thread tearers has slowed down the pace greatly, but there seems to be little suspense when released in the second half of this year, and Intel is about to fall behind by almost a year.
According to the information currently available, Sapphire Rapids will be manufactured using a 10nm SuperFin enhanced version process. It will first support DDR5 memory, up to eight channels, 4800MHz frequency, and integrate HBM2 high-bandwidth memory for the first time, up to 64GB, and support the next generation of Optane persistent memory, random Access bandwidth is increased by up to 2.6 times.
In terms of technology, the first release supports PCIe 5.0, up to 80 channels, and the multi-channel interconnection channel is upgraded to four UPI 2.0, each with a bandwidth of 16GT/s. It also supports CXL 1.1 high-speed interconnection bus, and it can also be connected to independent via PCIe 5.0 and CXL. FPGA accelerator, the instruction set supports INT8, BFloat16 precision AMX, TMIUL.
The power consumption is also quite amazing, the TDP upper limit has been increased from 270W to 350W, and it is said that 400W can be unlocked.
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