Intel today introduced the new fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Sapphire Rapids architecturea new architecture that we have been talking about for some time, and that has finally paid off in the form of new processors for data centers.
These chips have quite a few novelties, but something that will interest those users who have specific workloads will be the accelerators that we find in these processors, Thus, in the case of the chips with the largest number of accelerators ever launched on the market, which are the following:
|
Throttle |
Purpose |
|---|---|
|
Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions |
Acceleration of inference and training of Deep Learning networks, such as natural language processing. We can read more at this link. |
|
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions for vRAN |
Improving access density to virtualized radio access networks (networks used by telemarketers to execute baseband functions) in up to 2 times with the same energy consumption. |
|
Intel Data Streaming Accelerator |
Throttling performance of storage drives for workloads that require a large flow of data. |
|
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 |
set of instructions that They speed up compute for certain workloads through optimizations and the use of two FMAs together. |
|
Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator |
Improved performance in database queries. |
|
Intel Quick Assist Technology |
Acceleration of encryption, decryption and compression tasks by moving these workloads away from the main cores. |
|
Intel Dynamic Load Balancer |
Hardware-based load balancing distributes the network load across different processor cores. |
|
Intel® Crypto Acceleration |
Reduces the performance penalty when implementing pervasive encryption and accelerates encryption-sensitive workloads. |
It is not a minor milestone, as Intel announces an average improvement of up to 2.9 times in performance per wattdirect savings of up to 70W per processor, and a 55% lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in Artificial Intelligence inference. It also announces an average performance improvement of 53 percent, with 10 times higher performance in inference and trainingsomething that can be attributed to the accelerators explained above.
In addition, other accelerators give us double the performance in vRAN for 5G networks, the same as for storage, while the performance in data analysis triples.
Processor categories
This generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors comes with a huge catalog of chips to choose from, most of which are compatible with Intel On Demand, and we have a total of 10 categories of chips to choose from, as we will see below.
2S High Performance General Purpose Processors
|
Model |
cores |
Freq. Base |
Freq. Boost (All Core) |
Freq. max boost |
Cache |
TDP |
DDR5 speed |
Price |
Intel OnDemand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
8480+ |
56 |
2GHz |
3GHz |
3.8GHz |
105MB |
350W |
4800MHz |
$10,710 |
Yes |
|
8470 |
52 |
2GHz |
3GHz |
3.8GHz |
105MB |
350W |
4800MHz |
$9,359 |
Yes |
|
8468 |
48 |
2.1GHz |
3.1GHz |
3.8GHz |
105MB |
350W |
4800MHz |
$7,214 |
Yes |
|
8460Y+ |
40 |
2GHz |
2.8GHz |
3.7GHz |
105MB |
300W |
4800MHz |
$5,558 |
Yes |
|
8462Y+ |
32 |
2.8GHz |
3.6GHz |
4.1GHz |
60MB |
300W |
4800MHz |
$5,945 |
Yes |
|
6448Y |
32 |
2.1GHz |
3GHz |
4.1GHz |
60MB |
225W |
4800MHz |
$3,583 |
Yes |
|
6442Y |
24 |
2.6GHz |
3.3GHz |
4GHz |
60MB |
225W |
4800MHz |
$2,878 |
Yes |
|
6444Y |
16 |
3.6GHz |
4GHz |
4.1GHz |
45MB |
270W |
4800MHz |
$3,622 |
Yes |
|
6426Y |
16 |
2.5GHz |
3.3GHz |
4.1GHz |
37.5MB |
185W |
4800MHz |
$1,517 |
Yes |
|
6434 |
8 |
3.7GHz |
4.1GHz |
4.1GHz |
22.5MB |
195W |
4800MHz |
$2,607 |
Yes |
|
5415+ |
8 |
2.9GHz |
3.6GHz |
4.1GHz |
22.5MB |
150W |
4400MHz |
$1,066 |
Yes |
2S General Purpose Processors
General purpose processors for liquid cooling
General purpose processors
Processors optimized for data analysis and virtualization
Network-optimized processors
Cloud-optimized processors
HCI-optimized processors
Intel Xeon Max Processors
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Jordi Bercial
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