Intel’s High-End Desktop[HEDT] program has been quiet since 2019. Although new Intel Sapphire Rapids chip has been spotted which is a part of the Xeon W family. The Xeon W5-3433 CPU is for the upcoming “Fishhawk Falls” HEDT program. After countless leaks, delays, and rumours about the upcoming Sapphire Rapids processors, this leak has again brought attention back to Intel’s HEDT program.
The new CPU, listed as Xeon W5-3433 was spotted on SiSoftware’s Sandra benchmark platform by a hardware leaker @momomo_us. According to the specs listed on the site, the CPU will have 16 cores and 32 threads as it is a successor to the Xeon W-3335, a CPU part of the Lake-X family.
While Alder Lake CPUs have 2 MB of L2 cache per core only, the W5-3433 has 45 MB of L3 cache and 32 MB of L2 cache making it a part of the Sapphire Rapids CPU series. The data also suggests that the chip is an early engineering sample based on its 2 GHz clock speed.
The CPU produces 456.00 GOPS in the Arithmetic test which is lower than the 490.41 GOPS produced by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX 16-core chip. This should be due to the 16 Golden Cove Cores which in turn will provide better single and multi-core performances than the AMD Ryzen Threadripper lineup.
That’s about everything known about the CPU as Intel has kept its lips tight shut regarding the Sapphire Rapids lineup. Intel releases its HEDT processors under either the Core-X segment for mainstream consumers or the Xeon W-series for professional workstations.
Intel is preparing its Alder Lake-X for the mainstream consumer segment of HEDT whose sample reached a turbo of 5.3 GHz according to a leak. The Sapphire Rapids is for the expert segment for the “Fishhawk Falls” series. Sapphire Rapids series will have more powerful Xeon CPUs with increased core count for Workstations.
There’s also support for DDR5 and 64 PCle 5.0 lanes suggesting a price in the range of $500-$3000. This is in line with the pricing of previous Core-X CPUs.
The Sapphire Rapids lineup is expected to release in Q4 of 2022 and could again be pushed back to Q1 of 2023. This will probably be after AMD’s Threadripper lineup, creating tough choices to make for HEDT users between the blue and red teams.
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Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer on the basis of revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors – the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).
Incorporated in Delaware, Intel ranked No. 46 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
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