40 cores up to 3.4 GHz for $ 8,100. Intel Unveils 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable (IceLake-SP) – Its First 10nm Server Processors

Intel today officially unveiled its third generation Xeon Scalable processors – the so-called IceLake-SP. These are the first 10nm server processors, and it is not surprising that they are better than their predecessors: more cores, higher performance, and lower prices.

If we talk about performance, then Intel declares an increase in IPC of 20%. Taken together with other innovations (faster memory, larger cache, etc.) Intel reports an average performance improvement of 1.46x for common tasks and a 1.74x performance improvement for AI tasks. This is when comparing the new Xeon 8380 and its predecessor – Xeon 8280. And if we compare the new product with the 5-year-old Xeon E5-2688E4, the advantage of the new product will be much greater – 2.65 times.

Xeon Scalable of the third generation received increased amounts of cache memory of the first, second and third levels: the predecessors – 32 KB, 1 MB and 1.375 MB, and the new products – 48 KB, 1.25 and 1.5 MB, respectively. Instead of supporting 48 PCIe 3.0 lanes, there are now 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes. The RAM subsystem has also improved: now it supports 8 channels and memory modules with a frequency of 3200 MHz (maximum memory – 6 TB). Also, support for sets of various commands has been significantly expanded.