[Hardware]First image of an Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids-SP processor

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The first image of an Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids-SP appears, some processors that could reach the market later this year

 

 

Currently the market for server processors is dominated by Intel Xeon solutions. Despite the advent of AMD EPYC, many systems are based on Intel solutions. This segment usually updates systems in longer periods of time. Even with updates, 'old' systems are still useful for certain tasks.

 
The new Sapphire Rapids-SP are characterized by being manufactured in the 10nm Enhaced SuperFin node. This is an advanced process based on the 10nm self node.

 

Sapphire Rapids-SP arrives with some very cool features. The first one is that they integrate HBM2 memory stacks and have a Compute Express Lin 1.1 interface. Additionally, these processors integrate the PCIe 5.0 interface and support an Octa-Channel DDR5 RAM memory system.

 

The new generation Sapphire Rapids-SP makes use of the LGA4677-X socket, which has a quite particular design. Furthermore, these processors have already been chosen to be the basis for various exa-scale type systems. They allow the configuration of two of these processors along with six Intel Xe Ponte Vecchio graphics.

 

We currently do not know the maximum number of cores that this Intel Xeon family will offer. According to preliminary data, this new architecture will offer up to a 50% increase in IPC over Skyake.

 

According to some rumors, it will reach 64 cores and 128 threads, although there is no confirmation. The most that has been seen is a Sapphire Rapids-SP with 56 cores and 112 threads. It should be noted that AMD is developing the EPYC GENOA that will reach up to 96 cores of the Zen4 type @ 5nm