Intel Xeon "Granite Rapids-SP" CPUs could have up to 160 cores, 320 threads

[DragonSlayer101]

Rumor mill: After launching its Emerald Rapids lineup last December, Intel is expected to announce the successors in 2024. According to its official datacenter roadmap, the company will unveil the Granite Rapids-SP Xeon CPUs later this year following the launch of the Sierra Forest lineup in the coming weeks. While we already knew a few key details, a new leak has seemingly revealed additional information about the Granite Rapids family.

According to CPU-Z screenshots posted on X by leaker Yuuki_Ans, the flagship Granite Rapids-SP processor could come with 160 cores and 320 threads. While the listing reveals only 80 cores, the thread and cache amount suggest that the actual core count could be 160 rather than 80.

The confusion is likely due to the fact that the chip in question is a very early engineering sample showing a "0" stepping, but the app could still identify it as a Granite Rapids-SP CPU from the Family 6 Model D line. Irrespective of whether the leaked CPU comes with 80 cores or 160, it will still be an upgrade over Emerald Rapids, which ships with up to 64 cores and 128 threads.

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The CPU-Z screenshot also shows that the chip will offer 672MB of L3 cache in total, including two pools of 336MB each. Similarly, it could have 320MB of L2 cache, combining two pools of 160MB. However, Intel's software patches from earlier this year suggest that the top-end Granite Rapids SKUs could offer up to 480MB of L3 cache, which is more than the 336 MB shown in the leaked screenshot. Either way, it will be a major improvement over the high-end Emerald Rapids SKUs that ship with up to 320MB of L3 cache.

Do note that the socket selection panel on CPU-Z is greyed out in the screenshot, suggesting that the system was running a single CPU at the time of testing. Additionally, the screenshot suggests that the chip will have a 350W max TDP, which is similar to that of the Xeon Platinum 8592+ (Emerald Rapids).

The leaker also posted a second screenshot that showed the single-thread and multi-thread benchmarks for the upcoming chip. It notched up 394 points in the first test and 30,299 points in the second, suggesting it would be faster than the Xeon Platinum 8592+ Emerald Rapids CPU. The new chip was running at just 1GHz during the test, so its actual performance when running at full tilt could be significantly higher.

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[redgarl]

It this is still monolithic, it would be 80 cores.

 

[Squid Surprise]

But how many cores are E cores and how many are P cores?
Either way, it probably gets destroyed by the 7000 series Threadripper Pro… doubt it can even beat a 7980x Threadripper…

I’ll take 64 “real” cores over three times (or more) crappy cores.

 

[VariableSpike]

If its all real cores and the power efficiency is not insane (along with the costs vs epyc), then bring it on, competitopn and having more choice is always good.

If its big.little however, costs a bomb and/or uses a ton of power, then forget about it, even using an older 32 core epyc, its mindblowing how much better it has functioned vs the xeons, and even with the newer ones, I still see a ton of epyc Genoa chips being bought in my space vs the xeons, in a market that doesn't switch hardware too often

 

[Theinsanegamer]

If its all real cores and the power efficiency is not insane (along with the costs vs epyc), then bring it on, competitopn and having more choice is always good.

If its big.little however, costs a bomb and/or uses a ton of power, then forget about it, even using an older 32 core epyc, its mindblowing how much better it has functioned vs the xeons, and even with the newer ones, I still see a ton of epyc Genoa chips being bought in my space vs the xeons, in a market that doesn't switch hardware too often

If its all real cores these suckers are gonna have TDPs measures in kW. The first 1.2kW CPU!

AMD is just way ahead, just like the athlon days. Unlike athlon though, Intel doesnt have the genius israeli team working on a separate arch to bail them out this time.

 

[VariableSpike]

If its all real cores these suckers are gonna have TDPs measures in kW. The first 1.2kW CPU!

AMD is just way ahead, just like the athlon days. Unlike athlon though, Intel doesnt have the genius israeli team working on a separate arch to bail them out this time.

Exactly, its not like they can fall back on a pentium 3 (well, Pentium pro if we consider the original chip that used the architecture) again and work around it, they technically have got out of their 10/14nm pit, but looking at the performance and power use, even at a smaller node, the intel meteor lake chips are looking fairly shoddy, maybe rather than just trying to parrot arm with big.little and worm their way into being "efficient" (claiming the e cores are more efficient than amd when even just using the computer activates the p cores is nonsense, especially on a laptop where it just goes to sleep after like 5 seconds of inactivity...) they maybe should actually look at the drawing board