With all the Team Blue news floating around recently, Intel is not slowing with its product release schedule as the Sapphire Rapid refresh has been officially revealed.
Carrying the name of Intel Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 series processors, the flagship model is given to the Xeon W9-3595X with 60 P-Cores and 120 threads, allowing desktop workstation systems to grow their performance and power level to a new high, granting jobs like professional creators, researchers, engineers, and software developers the reliability and computing power they always wanted.
On the other hand, the W-2500 series offers up to 26 P-core and 52 threads instead. From the perspective of multithreaded performance, the W-3500 wins over the W-3400 with up to 10% more while the W-2500 beats the W-2400 with up to 11% instead.
If you’re thinking about the possibility of Intel messing with the latest chip with a substantial price markup, these may be only slightly true due to the increase in core counts and threads. For the lower tiers that have the same core specs as last gen, Team Blue said that they are maintaining the price tag while offering customers the latest stuff, adding more value and trust to the purchase.
Notable information about the new Intel Xeon chips include:
- Up to 4.8GHz boost clock frequency
- Up to 112.5MB and 48.75MB L3 cache for W9-3595X and W7-2595X
- 8-channel DDR5 RDIMM, up to 4TB (ECC and RAS support)
- Up to 112/64 PCIe 5.0 lanes for W-3500/W-2500 series
- 3rd Gen Intel Deel Learning Boost (AMX, BFloat16) and AVX-512 support
- Intel WiFi 6E
- OC support for CPU and RAM (Intel XMP 3.0)
- Intel vPro Enterprise suite
Price and Availability
Launched and made available starting today, the Intel Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 workstation processors can be obtained through partners including HP, Dell, and Lenovo with a price range from US$609 to $5,889 while full systems can be expected in September.
