From ExtremeTech: Today, Intel is pulling the wraps off its newest lineup of Xeon processors bound for professional workstations. The company is announcing two product lines dubbed Xeon W-3400 and W-2400. The 3400 series are for “experts” and carry a TDP of 350W. The 2400 CPUs are labeled “mainstream” and have a 225W TDP. One new “feature” is Intel is segregating them into classes as it does for its consumer CPUs. The 3400 series includes W9, W7, and W5 variants. The 2400 class gets W7, W5, and W3 SKUs. These CPUs will bridge the gap between its consumer and the data center versions of Sapphire Rapids. However, they are not HEDT CPUs like Intel used to offer with the Core X lineup of yore.
The W-3400 and 2400 series share certain technologies but differ everywhere else. Both families offer Intel TurboBoost Max 3.0 and Intel SmartCache (up to 105MB). They all support AVX-512 and offer Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Beyond that, the specs are radically different. As the flagship series, the 3400 line offers up to 56 CPU cores. Up to 4TB of 4800MT/s DDR5 memory with ECC is supported across up to eight memory channels. There are also up to 112 PCIe 5.0 lanes and support for Wi-Fi 6e as well. The W9 chip has 56 cores, the W7 offers 28, and the W5 has 16.
This family includes seven CPUs: two W9, three W7, and two W5. Pricing ranges from $1,189 for the 12-core, 24-thread base CPU to $5,889 for the flagship 56-core W9-3495X. TDPs range from 350W to 270W, so these CPUs require substantial cooling.
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