In specific apps, Intel says the Xeon 698X finished the Blender Junkshop render 74% faster than the Xeon w9-3595X, as well as sped up AI-powered upscaling with Topaz Labs Video Upscaler by 29%. Intel attributes the latter speed up to the AMX accelerators inside Xeon 600 cores. To that end, Intel is introducing Open Image Denoise 2.4, which it says is accelerated by FP16 instructions available in the Xeon 600 AMX.
In development, data analysis, and AI, Intel claims 24% better linear algebra performance (as measured in algorithms in Intel’s fork of NumPy/SciPy), 18% faster large dataset analysis with SPEC Workstation 4’s data science workload, and 16% faster AI inference with SPEC Workstation 4’s ONNX inference test.
Critically, Intel didn’t share any competitive benchmarks with Threadripper 9000. In a Q&A session with the press, Intel’s Jonathan Patton said, “We’re looking to be very competitive within the market, offering better performance per dollar for more value for the workstation spend… This is a very highly expandable platform. We have up to 4TB of memory capacity, supporting two DIMMs per channel, our competitors do not. We have advanced instruction sets — AMX, as we mentioned a little bit — and our vPro technology, so we continue to offer a very competitive platform.”
Hopefully, we’ll have those comparisons soon. Intel says Xeon 600 motherboards with the W890 chipset will launch in late March, as will workstations from OEMs like Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro. We still haven’t learned about a firm release date, nor a release window for boxed Xeon 600 chips.
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thestryker I'm surprised to see MRDIMM support making it to the workstation parts as I just assumed that would be a point of differentiation. I've been looking forward to seeing what overclocking on GNR looked like in general (first overclockable part on an Intel EUV node), but adding MRDIMMs to the mix is a whole new frontier here. It's a shame these are so far out of my justifiable range of purchase price. Reply
bit_user Like with some other recent examples we've seen from Intel, a promising product looks to be undermined by bad launch timing. I look forward to benchmarks, but DRAM prices are going to seriously rain on its parade. Reply
bit_user Stomx said: Workstations chips all already overclocked server chips, Scatterbencher did some interesting stuff with overclocking Sapphire Rapids Xeon w7-3465X. In the end, they managed to achieve over a 50% performance increase on some benchmarks! That's quite amazing, IMO! https://skatterbencher.com/2023/09/02/skatterbencher-63-intel-xeon-w7-3465x-overclocked-to-5100-mhz/ Reply
Stomx bit_user said: Scatterbencher did some interesting stuff with overclocking Sapphire Rapids Xeon w7-3465X. In the end, they managed to achieve over a 50% performance increase on some benchmarks! That's quite amazing, IMO! https://skatterbencher.com/2023/09/02/skatterbencher-63-intel-xeon-w7-3465x-overclocked-to-5100-mhz/ That was 7nm 28core chip of 2023. No way you easily overclock current 128-core processor. The further in passed times the larger was overclock. I was probably the first in history overclocker when on the start of PC era by mistake reached 100% overclock of 8086 because could not find its stock 4.77Mhz crystal and used variable frequency LC generator reaching 10MHz ! We will soon forget about overclocking 2nm and below chips due to potential rapid degradation of their small features specifically sensitive to the top temperatures fluctuations. Reply
bit_user Stomx said: That was 7nm 28core chip of 2023. Yes, it was. Stomx said: No way you easily overclock current 128-core processor. We don't know that. Also, the article clearly says these only go up to 86 cores. Stomx said: I was probably the first in history overclocker when on the start of PC era by mistake reached 100% overclock of 8086 because could not find its stock 4.77Mhz crystal and used variable frequency LC generator reaching 10MHz ! That's pretty funny! How long did it run like that? Did anything bad happen? Stomx said: We will soon forget about overclocking 2nm and below chips due to potential rapid degradation of their small features specifically sensitive to the top temperatures fluctuations. Eh, maybe? I honestly expected CPUs to be degrading heavily with normal use, by this point in the technology curve. Fortunately, when operated according to manufacturer specs, the norm is still a good deal of longevity and even overclocking doesn't burn them out overnight. Stomx said: Heard about dual socket motherboards? Those are effectively server boards. The workstation CPUs only support single-socket configurations. So, whether they call it a server or a workstation board, you'll be limited to putting server-spec Xeons in there. I'm also going to push back on this idea, because just the DIMM slots for two > 86-core Xeons + the sockets + the VRMs eats up a ton of board space. So, there probably wouldn't be a lot of room for PCIe slots. At that point, what you're building really is more of a server than a workstation. Stomx said: Using high end workstations and restricting yourself with just the one small core count CPU? Okay, so 86 cores is now "small core count"??? Are you feeling alright? Reply
thestryker Stomx said: Heard about dual socket motherboards? Using high end workstations and restricting yourself with just the one small core count CPU? Have you heard about the 1S restriction on workstation CPUs? Obviously this was a bait comment on my part to expose your ignorance and thanks for living up to my low expectations. Stomx said: No way you easily overclock current 128-core processor. Which is that again? These Xeon workstation parts go up to 86 cores and even AMD's cap at 96. Reply
Stomx thestryker said: Have you heard about the 1S restriction on workstation CPUs? Obviously this was a bait comment on my part to expose your ignorance and thanks for living up to my low expectations. Threadripper Pro : dual-socket support is available on the WRX90 platform :))))) Reply
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