Intel Sapphire Rapids workstation chips tout up to 56 cores, unlocked SKUs

Intel has officially launched the workstation-focused versions of its Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors, claiming an almost 30 percent boost in performance per core users when compared to its previous platform. The latest updates to the Intel Xeon W processor portfolio, the new chips are based on the same technology as the 4th …

[Anonymous Coward]

"Got that?"

Honestly no. Further I also find the naming scheme difficult to determine generations, for instance I thought there already was a W-2400 :-/ I don't mind to look at the parts in a table view to read the specs but, every time I find specs to read I'm constantly asking myself "Are these the latest ones?". Of course it could be that I'm older but I find modern naming schemes extremely obfuscated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Gooooood give AMD some competition and an incentive to pull their fingers out and get a multiplier-unlocked Genoa-based Threadripper out there :D

[elsergiovolador]

30%

On 30th February during the fool's moon.

I mean why Intel keep doing this?

A little bit more cores here, some extra clock there. Boring.

They have wasted so many years where they could have come up with something better than Apple.

Nope. Another "new" Intel CPU.

[Philippe]

Re: 30%

I wonder how good of an Hackintosh you can build with those?

[David Pearce]

56 Cores

So only useful for massively threaded applications then

[Korev]

Re: 56 Cores

Or running lots of VMs?

Which could easily get IO bound -->