Intel introduces the new Xeon W with super performance for Workstations
Intel continues its program of renewal, and evolution, with a major new announcement: the company’s CPU range has indeed been renewed, with the debut of the new Intel Xeon W-3400 desktop processors and Intel Xeon W-2400 processors for jobs, which make up the family known by the code name Sapphire Rapids.
The company anticipated the significant advance, in terms of performance, of the new platform in relation to the previous solutions. The new Xeon W9-3495X is Intel’s most powerful workstation processor. The new solutions in the Intel Xeon range are aimed in particular at content creation professionals, engineers, designers and data scientists.
The new generation of desktop processors for workstations from Intel offers an advantage over the past. In fact, the new Intel Xeon W-3400, and Intel Xeon W-2400, raise the level of performance, providing professionals from various sectors of activity with all the necessary computing capacity to carry out their work quickly and with maximum efficiency.
The new range of Sapphire Rapids processors can support DDR5 RDIMM memory, PCIe Gen 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6E. There is also support for Intel vPro Enterprise technologies, ECC memory and RAS (reliability, availability, maintainability) that complete a complete package of technologies capable of guaranteeing a considerable generational leap.
The new Intel Xeon W-3400/2400 guarantee up to a maximum of 56 Cores in a single socket. For the top of the range Intel Xeon W9-3495X, thanks also to a redesigned memory controller and a larger L3 cache, there are notable performance improvements. In single-thread, in fact, the performance upgrade is +28% while in multi-thread it reaches +120% compared to its predecessor.
Among the main technical characteristics of the new generation of Intel Xeon W we have:
- Up to 4.8GHz clock frequency by applying new Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology
- Up to 105MB L3 cache for better performance and more efficient data management
- Support for eight channels of DDR5 RDIMM memory up to 4TB
- Support for configurations of up to 112 PCIe Gen 5.0 CPU lanes on Xeon W-3400 processors and up to 64 PCIe Gen 5.0 CPU lanes on Xeon
- W-2400 processors for multi-GPU, SSD, and network cards
- Wi-Fi 6E support
- For all unlocked processors, overclocking support including features specific to DDR5 XMP 3.0 RDIMM memory
Roger Chandler, vice president and general manager, Intel, Creator and Workstation Solutions, Client Computing Group, comments, “The new Intel Xeon desktop platform for workstations is specifically designed to unleash the creativity and content, artists, engineers, designers, data scientists and demanding users built to take on the most demanding workloads of today and tomorrow.”
Prices and availability
The presentation of the new Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 anticipates their commercial debut by a few weeks. Intel, by the way, has already opened pre-orders for the new processors that will start hitting the market from March onwards. The range will include several options, and the new Intel Xeon W, in fact, starts at 359 dollars and goes up to 5889 dollars, necessary value for the top of the range Xeon w9-3495X.
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