Intel announced the new Intel Xeon W-3400 and Intel Xeon W-2400 desktop workstation processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), led by the Intel Xeon w9-3495X, Intel’s most powerful desktop workstation processor ever designed. Built for professional creators, these new Xeon processors provide massive performance for media and entertainment, engineering and data science professionals.
The new integrated multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) packaging, faster cores, and ground-breaking new computational architecture of the Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 family of processors offer unparalleled performance growth.
Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager, Creator and Workstation Solutions, Client Computing Group said “For more than 20 years, Intel has been committed to delivering the highest quality workstation platforms – combining high-performance compute and rock-solid stability – for professional PC users across the globe. Our new Intel Xeon desktop workstation platform is uniquely designed to unleash the innovation and creativity of professional creators, artists, engineers, designers, data scientists, and power users – built to tackle both today’s most demanding workloads as well as the professional workloads of the future.”
The Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 CPUs offer the advanced computing capabilities that are needed by modern-day professionals for the upcoming computing demands. These processors support the latest platform technologies such as DDR5 RDIMM memory, PCIe Gen 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6E, providing professionals with the state-of-the-art tools they need to handle future computing workloads. Additionally, these CPUs support Intel vPro Enterprise technology, as well as ECC memory and RAS technologies that enhance workstation reliability, availability, and serviceability, ensuring that workflow interruptions are minimized for professionals.
The high-end Intel Xeon w9-3495X processor is capable of accommodating up to 56 cores within a single socket. It has an updated memory controller and a larger L3 cache, which can deliver performance improvements of up to 28% for single-threaded tasks and up to 120% for multithreaded tasks compared to the previous generation. Moreover, the processor can operate at frequencies of up to 4.8 gigahertz with Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, which provides exceptional computing performance for professional users in their daily workloads.
Other platform features include:
• Up to 105 megabytes of L3 cache for increased performance and data management.
• Eight channels of DDR5 RDIMM memory support enable up to 4 terabytes of memory capacity and increased memory bandwidth for large data sets and memory-intensive workloads.
• ECC memory and RAS technologies support improved integrity of critical data and system reliability.
• 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 for multi-GPUs, SSDs and network cards give professionals configuration flexibility to meet their next task.
• Integrated Intel Wi-Fi 6E for the latest network connectivity.
• Comprehensive overclocking support for unlocked processors – including first-in-industry DDR5 XMP 3.0 RDIMM memory overclocking features.
• 3rd generation Intel Deep Learning Boost (AMX, Bfloat16) delivers significantly more efficient deep learning acceleration for artificial intelligence training and inferencing.
• Intel vPro enterprise technologies for hardware-enhanced security features, firmware version control and remote manageability enable easy system deployment into the enterprise environment.
Industry partners will start taking pre-orders for the Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 workstation CPUs on February 15; systems will start shipping in March. The Intel Xeon W Processor series has a starting recommended customer price of $359 (Xeon w3-2423) and a maximum recommended customer price of $5,889 (Xeon w9-3495X).
