Overclocker pushes Intel Xeon-W CPU to world record score of 132,484 points in Cinebench R23
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SamuelL421
Unlocked multi?! That's exciting news - way beyond my budget but when businesses start unloading Xeon-W workstations in a few years...
Agonist
If only it was like the X58 Xeon days. $70 X5650 for me in 2014 and I ended up with a 4.6ghz overclock with an H100. Talk about an upgrade from a 4.1ghz i7 950. 8 threads to 12.
lmimmfn
Did the same, what a dream Upgrade that was!
alanm
56 cores, 112 threads, no surprise. CB23 can utilize up to 256 threads.
Marios145
64-core Zen 4 will probably grab the record back on air/water
tunejunky
:D
for a long time Xeon was the only escape from four core prison...and for a little time way cheaper than X79 (etc...)
at the time i was transcoding music and film and i don't think i'm exaggerating to say it saved me days to weeks of time with "moar cores". if only i had one of my TR rigs (purpose built for production) back then i would have saved months.
this Xeon series isn't "too little too late" (except for the cloud), it's "just enough, just in time".
bobnewels
I got 45 FPS with ray tracing psyco settings at 4K.Exciting times we live in.;)
FlyBy
What they didn't mention is that the lights in that village went out during their test runs... ----------__________________--------
Agonist
Exactly. i7 970/980x etc for X58 were still over $300 for some damn reason in 2014. So xeon was the absolute gold reason for getting out of having a quad core.
Intel for some reason locked us out of them after x58 even though all the people who wanted 6 cores were not gonna purchase insanely overpriced 6 core sandybridged X79 cpus.
And for them doing this d-bag move, I switched to Ryzen after my 3930k setup in 2017 and havent bought any new intel system since.
Undying
Shouldn't zen4 Epyc dual configuration, Genoa with 192-core, 384-thread just destroy this score?
TLD LARS
Yes. but Cinebench is 256 cores only, so all 384 threads of the Epyc dual setup is not getting used.
Opening 2 instances of Cinebench and adding the scores together will probably give a higher score then this record and maybe even use less power.
tunejunky
all the while Alanis Morrissette is singing "Isn't It Ironic"...
in any case your point is being used by IT system designers, especially in Europe. Intel is doing just fine in the western hemisphere w/ Xeon but Epyc is "killing it" with lower power and less heat and Zen 4 Epyc is selling almost as fast as fabbed (they had pre-production orders to fulfill). this power draw differential is especially noticeable at scale deployments like datacenters
hamltnblue
The reason any of this is happening is competition. We were in 4 core a long time because Intel had no reason to improve much.
When sales slumped, they boosted the clocks a little and maybe added an instruction set or 2.
When AMD got their act together, and boosted the cores, Intel once again had something to worry about.
Now, we are talking about actual improvements in architecture.
