Intel W790 motherboard for Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs has been listed for $960

Intel lastly returning to HEDT market

The primary Intel W790 motherboard has been listed by a Canadian retailer. 

A mockup of Supermicro MBD-X12SPA-TF-O C621A (Cascade Lake)

The rumors about ‘Sapphire Rapids’ workstation chipset referred to as W790 are literally return so far as mid-2021. That’s after we shared a slide that includes Sapphire Rapids as a HEDT (Excessive-Finish Desktop) product supported by the upcoming W790 chipset. This product was imagined to launch within the second quarter of this yr, however Intel is clearly having bother maintaining Sapphire Rapids merchandise on a schedule.

Greater than a yr later, we now know that Intel will introduce its 4th Xeon Scalable CPUs based mostly on Sapphire Rapids on January tenth. So far there isn’t any phrase on HEDT sequence, a minimum of not formally. Nonetheless, a Canadian retailer referred to as ATIC now lists a SuperMicro X13SWA motherboard based mostly on the W790 chipset with some preliminary specs.

SuperMicro X13SWA-TF W790 (Sapphire Rapids), Supply: ATIC

The W790 motherboard would help as much as 6 PCIe Gen4 x16 slots (so no Gen5 help), two 10 Gbit LAN ports, and it might be an E-ATX type issue, which is now typically utilized by server-grade or fanatic boards. Moreover, the LGA-4677 socket talked about by this itemizing clearly means Sapphire Rapids CPU, however one mustn’t rule out the not too long ago noticed Raptor Lake processors with 34 cores simply but. The motherboard is presently listed at $1290 (CAD) which equals to round $963 (USD).

Intel is but to verify its plans for HEDT market, however it appears the corporate will supply client Core-S sequence, enterprise Core vPRO and HEDT/server Xeon merchandise. On the opposite aspect now we have client Ryzen, enterprise Ryzen PRO, Threadripper PRO for content material creation, workstation EPYC SP6 (nonetheless unreleased) and EPYC SP5 for datacenters launched earlier this month. Intel clearly has some catching as much as do on the high-end market.

Supply: ATIC.ca through @momomo_us, Tom’s {Hardware}