Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8468 48 Core “Sapphire Rapids” CPUs have been benchmarked in a dual-socket config & supply related efficiency as AMD’s 128-Core EPYC chips.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 “Sapphire Rapids” CPUs With 96 Cores On Par With AMD’s EPYC 7763 Milan 128-Core CPUs In Leaked Benchmark
The newest benchmark comes from Geekbench 5 (through Benchleaks) the place we will see an entry of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 CPU. That is an upcoming Sapphire Rapids chip that will probably be providing 48 cores and 96 threads based mostly on the Golden Cove structure. The 8468 will are available in two configs, a normal 300W with a 2.1 GHz base and three.0 GHz (3.8 GHz max) increase clocks & a 330W variant with a barely greater 3.1 GHz all-core increase. This particular benchmark is of the 330W SKU and in a dual-socket configuration.
The twin socket configurations permit for as much as 96 cores and 192 threads. Every CPU comes with 105 MB of L3 cache and 96 MB of L2 cache for a complete of 201 MB cache per chip. The 300W variant solely options 90 MB of L3 cache per CPU. Each Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon Platinum 8468 CPUs will be seen operating on a Nettrix 60EB32 motherboard platform based mostly on the Linux ecosystem with 512 GB of DDR5 reminiscence.
The Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 Sapphire Rapids CPU scores 1253 factors in single-core and 74,853 factors within the multi-threaded assessments. That is proper on par with a twin configuration of the AMD EPYC 7763 CPUs which characteristic 33% greater core and thread counts and in addition run at greater frequencies. The AMD EPYC Genoa CPU benchmarks leaked some time in the past are additionally used for comparability & these showcase a 17% greater single and 29% greater multi-threaded efficiency enhance whereas having twice as many cores and threads. The one-core rating reveals that there’s nonetheless room for platform optimization on the Sapphire Rapids aspect.
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It appears like AMD will nonetheless maintain the higher hand within the variety of cores & threads supplied per CPU with their Genoa chips pushing for as much as 96 cores and Bergamo going as much as 128 cores whereas Intel Xeon chips would max out at 60 cores if they do not plan on making SKUs with the next variety of tiles. Intel can have a wider and extra expandable platform that may assist as much as 8 CPUs without delay so except Genoa affords greater than 2P (dual-socket) configurations, Intel can have the lead in probably the most variety of cores per rack with an 8S rack packing as much as 480 cores and 960 threads. The Xeon Sapphire Rapids-SP household is anticipated to start quantity ramp in early 2023 whereas AMD will probably be transport its Genoa EPYC 9000 line in This autumn 2022.
