Meet Intel’s All-New Monstrous 56-Core Processor
Just a few months ago, only the giant chip manufacturer, Intel, announced a 48-core Xeon processor. The company now features a more generous chip in numbers: the new Xeon Cascade Lake Advanced Performance chip features 56 cores and 112 cores threads. And not only that, but it also has support for the Intel Optane DC memories, which is another draw of the line. To be more precise, we are talking about the second generation of the Xeon Scalable family, divided into four lines: Xeon Bronze, Xeon Silver, Xeon Gold, and Xeon Platinum. Also Read: Best Computer Tricks and Hacks for Your Window PC With the exception of the Bronze series, which has a single model (Xeon Bronze 3204), each line has several chips. It seems like an exaggeration, but the giant chip manufacturer, Intel’s goal with this variety is to serve a wide range of applications. Hence, some chips are targeted at activities with large amounts of RAM; others are network-oriented, and so on. The 56-core Cascade Lake appears as the most powerful model in this series which Intel releases, and it offers four options in the Platinum 9200 series:-
Intel Xeon Platinum 9282: 56 cores, 112 threads, 2.6 GHz frequency (maximum 3.8 GHz), 77 MB L3 cache, 400W TDP. Intel Xeon Platinum 9242: 48 cores, 96 threads, 2.3 GHz frequency (maximum 3.8 GHz), 71.5 MB L3 cache, 350W TDP. Intel Xeon Platinum 9222: 32 cores, 64 threads, 2.3 GHz frequency (maximum 3.7 GHz), 71.5 MB L3 cache, 250W TDP. Intel Xeon Platinum 9221: 32 cores, 64 threads, 2.1 GHz frequency (maximum 3.7 GHz), 71.5 MB L3 cache, 250W TDP.
These processors are directed to servers or applications that demand a lot of performance, which explains the great numbers. Not only that, even the giant chip manufacturer Intel recommends a sound liquid cooling system for the Xeon Platinum 9282, as it has 400W. The giant chip manufacturer Intel resorted to a Multi-Chip Module (MCM) approach to reach so many cores. Etwo dies in the same encapsulation form each processor. While the Xeon Platinum 9282, for example, comprises two 28-core Cascade Lake CXC (Extreme Core Count) chips.
As Tom’s Hardware points out, the two dies allow the processor to access 12 channels of DDR4 memory of 2933MHz. With this, a dual-socket server equipped with Cascade Lake AP chips can count up to 3TB RAM and transfer memory up to 407GB/s (gigabytes per second). There are no significant structural changes, as the new Cascade Lake AP Xeon chips continue to be based on the Purley platform, which, in turn, is based on the 14nm + 14nm Skylake architecture, As the giant chip manufacturer, Intel says, however, that optimization has improved the performance of the new chips by up to 30% compared to the previous generation. Moreover, with the massive number of cores, Intel draws attention to other attributes, such as the previously mentioned DDR4 memory support of 2933MHz (versus up to 2666MHz in the previous generation). In addition, each chip now supports up to 1.5TB of RAM (hence the 3 TB of dual-socket RAM mentioned above). Support for new Optane DC (Data Center) persistent memory DIMMs is another highlight, as the technology essentially works as a sort of bridge between RAM and storage as the data remains stored in the modules even when the computer is shut down that the information gets loaded faster at startup. Also Read: How To Create Computer Virus In a Few Seconds (Notepad virus tricks) Basically, these new series of Intel chips are the solutions against the Meltdown and Specter failures. While the giant chip manufacturer Intel mitigated these hardware-level issues, performance should be less affected than firmware-enforced fixes. While now, if we talk about the price, then let me clarify that the giant chip manufacturer Intel did not disclose the cost of the 56-core processor, but for the price assumption we all know that the new Platinum 8280 (28 cores), which is the most advanced model of the 8200 Platinum Series starts at $10,000. So, what do you think about this? Share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below.
