Intel claims 18A-P delivers 9% higher performance at the same power as 18A, or an 18% power reduction at the same performance level. Intel says it also improved reliability and tweaked voltage behavior, making 18A-P a much more mature revision of 18A, likely in a bid to attract external customers for Intel Foundry.
Intel is facing off against AMD’s Zen 6 Venice CPUs, which we expect to learn more about at AMD’s Advancing AI event in July. So far, AMD has confirmed that Venice will launch with up to 256 cores, 1.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth per socket, and a 70% jump in gen-on-gen performance. There’s still a lot we don’t know about Venice and Diamond Rapids, but from the initial teases, Team Red is looking like the leader.
That would make sense. Although Diamond Rapids is a significant release for Intel, the company has continually reiterated the importance of Coral Rapids, the generation that will follow Xeon 7 on Intel’s road map . We expect to see Coral Rapids in 2028, featuring SMT, and Intel has said that it’s looking into ways to accelerate the Coral Rapids rollout.
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JayNor Intel has avx10.2 and APX extension on the roadmap for Diamond Rapids. Those reportedly won't be on the coming generation of AMD chips. Reply
setx AVX10.2 is insignificant on server as it already has AVX512. It will be significant on client chips as Intel will finally have parity with AMD. APX is very interesting but we probably shouldn't expect too much from first implementation. Reply
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