10nm Ice Lake (38 Cores) and 14nm Cooper Lake (48 Cores) Xeon CPU Specs leak
10nm for desktop based chips are still on the roadmap, at least Intel debunked that somewhat, however newly leaked slide confirms a thing or two more in the server market as well, including 10nm server processors based on Ice Lake.
A slide originating from Asus lists a number of product characteristics and launch data for Xeons processors. As you can see Cascade Lake products will be succeeded by Cooper Lake in the second quarter of 2020, and here we see Ice Lake-Xeons will arrive in the third quarter. Cooper Lake will fit on the new Socket P + and get a TDP of up to 300 watts. It is striking that the number of cores per socket has doubled to 48 cores, while a maximum of two sockets can fit on one motherboard.
The number of pcie 3.0 lanes has been increased from 48 to 64 lanes (Gen4 for Ice Lake), and the number of interconnects per processor has also increased to 4. The ram now has eight memory channels via ddr4-3200 instead of six channels with a maximum of ddr4-2666. Ice Lake will get the same Socket P + platform, but the tdp has been lowered to 270 watts per processor. The number of calculation cores is also slightly lower with 38 cores and 72 threads, the number of sockets per motherboard is two equal to Cooper Lake. The number of memory channels is equal to Cooper Lake, but there is support for the second generation of Intel's 'persistent memory', or Optane.
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Isnt the upcoming AMD TR 3990x 64/128 280w?
Also even skylake x had more cores than this.
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Guessing they up the clocks significantly on those cores (especially compared 48-core Cooper Lake on the same chart). Given they're Xeons that will likely be used in VM hosts, I doubt the power draw will ever get to the 270W anyway.
Nice to have a faster option at least, so you can get the speed when you need it. You can always buy the low power, low speed, high core count Xeon if that works better for your application.
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Wonder if they release 10nm how much ++++ intel make before they skip to 5nm.
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Guessing they up the clocks significantly on those cores (especially compared 48-core Cooper Lake on the same chart). Given they're Xeons that will likely be used in VM hosts, I doubt the power draw will ever get to the 270W anyway.
Nice to have a faster option at least, so you can get the speed when you need it. You can always buy the low power, low speed, high core count Xeon if that works better for your application.
Or you can buy an Epyc chip.
Seriously though, I wonder what clock speeds they will obtain with those specs, as I heard rumours ice lake wasn't clocking as well as they hoped at 10nm. Also why 2 different types of server chips?
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270W for 38 Cores!!!! Can someone help me understand how this might actually be good?