New Xeons: Intel is coming for muh Threadripper!!!!!!

Intel's new Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Workstation Processors are definitely going to be competing with Ryzen Threadrippers!

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[stefannilsson]

I have been using the w5 2455X for a couple months now and I am loving it. Finally got an upgrade from my 9th gen i7 that was a substantial single thread performance and I got the PCIE lanes I always dreamed of. Way cheaper than threadripper pro 5000 too, and it has better single thread performance on top of using DDR5 and PCIE gen 5!

[DEJ]

The 3175 was a cool cpu but definitely the timing was horrible on it like you said with the release. If Intel can release this when it's actually competitive that will be nice. I'm curious how latency will compare on the 2400 vs 3400 as well compared to the alder and raptor lake desktop parts which was one thing that killed the X299 and 3175x platforms.

[dgillies]

I remember a time in the 1980's when you bought a PC you would get 8 full-sized bus slots. Seriously. At no extra cost!

[ericjauregui]

I'm still rocking my Dual Xeon E5 2690 v2 20 core/40 thread in my HP Z620, and quite happy with it.

[comrade]

Interesting stuff but not super excited about the pricing (with tax)i.e.
16 core will be about $1500-1600
Motherboard at least $1000
128DDR5 ecc - $1000ish
Cooling - $400-500
So barebones 16core system will be $3000-$3500 before we talk case, storage, psu and GPU

[Patrick_pakman]

So what's about server cipsets? I mean, c741 - has truncated functionality, from full feature chip. Some bios, w790 motherboards contain hbm memory information and other features, which they are shoud not support. Exactly, this means, w-chipsets motherboards will support server series cpu? ...Max series for example. But anyway, more than interesting, c-791(?? i think), when this came out, if it will happens, because all features like, 64Gb HBM2e and start w/o "regular" memory, CXL support, Pmem300 support, pci-e biffurcation one 5.0 line on two 4.0 lines, 12 channels memory !! - 8 DDR5/DDRT2 + 4 HBM2e, ....and xmp on ecc memory which i think can be unlocked via bios_mod...All this features will have only server cpu and supported via combimation server cpu + server chiset... I right?

[glennsteen]

Looking forward to the Linux testing..

[cracklingice]

Honestly - I'd be stocked to have Zen3 and only having gen 4 PCIE on half the lanes. I'd be good with 24 gen 4 and 16 gen 3 lanes provided directly from the CPU if it kept the cost down. Price creep on PC parts is so beyond out of control. Anything more than like $600 for a consumer socket CPU and motherboard is insanity.

[thewarriorpainter]

I really hope we get another EVGA board…. They make the best motherboards full stop!

[СусаннаСергеевна]

The W5-3435X in particular looks interesting to me. I'm memory bandwidth constrained more than I'm core constrained, and between sixteen and thirty-two cores is my sweet spot. It's also unlocked, and the TDP is such that when EK puts out Sapphire Rapids water blocks, you probably can push it a bit higher than just the 4.6GHz Intel lists. It's a shame I don't need an upgrade, I really want one of these to play with.

Splitting the CPU into four dies to get the same number of cores AMD fits on two (in a consumer model no less) is kind of worrying though. I'm pretty sure I'm seeing performance costs from cross-die L3 caching on my 7950X, which only has two L3 caches, and AMD have had years to work on that issue.

[magoostus]

I'm still rocking a AMD Phenom x3 from 2009 for a linux file server. I get that computer hardware improves over time, but like.... i've saved $$$ by doing nothing and that's real winning

[JayzBeerz]

Still running a 5950x for gaming and work with no issues.

[GraysonZimmer]

You're looking so good! You're amazing and I've always been a fan since the before fore times. I'm SOOO looking forward to your sapphire rapids content. I'm REALLY hoping I can use it as a workstation 3d modeling/rendering/motion graphics and a high end gaming rig so I don't have to have two machines. High end PC VR streaming and content creation and regular games too. Here's to praying for modern IPC. My X299X machine is starting to show it's age with what I'm throwing at it.

[melodicarmor]

Interesting 🤔 definitely some funky stuff going on. Supply is the part I am most concerned about. I will be watching closely.

[vasiovasio]

DELL just announced their new Precision series with the new CPUs, which will be available on the 18th of next month, and we can see them!

[jonathanf]

I just want the cheapest system that can take 256GB of memory, and isn't super outdated.

[mattkeith]

are there any prebuilt or supermicro boards that support these? i'd love to upgrade

[daveg]

I'm looking at purchasing an Intel W7-2475X 20-Core with ASUS WS W790 ACE and 512GB of DDR5 RDIMM. No RDIMMs yet in Canada though, and Newegg only has the 12-Core and 16-Core.

[VN_]

I feel that the worst thing to ever happen to AMD was dominating the market for half a second. They have drop the ball and became another villain for the consumer like competition.

[QuentinStephens]

I think many more people would be interested in the lower end stuff if the CPUs were half the price or desktop + 50%.