Intel Xeon Gold Series 18 core chips

[MiniKnight]

From Intel Readies the Xeon Gold Series Processors for Media Workstations

Hot on the heels of AMD Ryzen, Intel is planning to launch the pro-consumer targeted Xeon Gold line of processors. The company is reportedly "freaked out" at the cost/performance of AMD Ryzen R7-1800X in creative productivity applications, and is preparing a new line of processors targeting that niche of the market, which uses MacPro desktops and media production workstations using HEDT processors, but needs a bit of "reliability." The Xeon Gold series will be based on the 14 nm "Skylake-EP" silicon, and will feature up to 18 CPU cores. The first model in the series is the Xeon Gold 6150.

The Xeon Gold 6150 features 18 CPU cores, with HyperThreading enabling 36 logical CPUs. Intel increased the L2 cache amount per core to 1 MB, from 256 KB found on other implementations of the "Skylake" architecture. The chip features 25,344 KB (24.75 MB) of shared L3 cache. The core clock speed is 2.70 GHz, with a maximum Turbo Boost frequency of 3.70 GHz. The chip features a quad-channel DDR4 memory interface. Going by its specs, the Xeon Gold 6150 will clearly occupy a higher market segment than the Ryzen R7-1800X, but could lure orders from the likes of Apple, for its next-generation MacPro workstations.

 

[T_Minus]

Single CPU limit?

 

[Spartus]

The info I saw leaked had benchmarks of a 2P supermicro system (and had it kicking ass because it had AVX 512 and 1MB L2 per core).

This is exactly what I need in my HPC environment. Waiting for some concrete info but this will change things for me a lot if accurate (the leaked benches).

 

[TLN]

I can imagine price for that. Think I'll stay with 2011 for now

 

[Klee]

I just upgraded to 2011-3. LOL