Intel today announced the 3rd Generation of its Xeon Scalable processors, that is, its range of processors for data centers more popularly known as Intel Ice Lake-SP.
Summarizing the information, we are facing processors with up to 40 cores and 80 processing threads under the Sunny Cove architecture at a 10nm manufacturing process, promising an IPC improvement of up to 20 percent over its predecessor.
Regarding performance, it offers an average of 46 percent more performance between an Intel Xeon Platinum 8320 at 10nm (28 cores + 56 threads @ 3.90 / 4.30 GHz with 250W TDP) vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 at 14nm (28 cores + 56 threads @ 2.70 / 4.00 GHz with 205W TDP) with an improvement in AI inference of 74 percent.
Finally, they support up to 6 TB of DDR4 RAM @ 3200 MHz in an Octa (8) -Channel configuration and access to a maximum of 64x PCI-Express 4.0 lanes per socket.
If we look for AMD in the press release, it only appears 1 time, and it is comparing an AMD EPYC 7763 and to indicate that its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon is up to 50% faster in AI, basically, because Intel processors have built-in AI acceleration, so it's its only strong point, where it only wins, and that's why AMD is quoted only once in the huge press release.
Intel press release
Intel today launched its most advanced and highest performing data center platform, which is optimized to power the broadest range of industry workloads, from cloud to network to intelligent edge. The new 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Ice Lake) are the key to Intel's data center platform, enabling customers to capitalize on some of the most important business opportunities available today. day harnessing the power of AI.
These new processors provide a significant performance increase over the previous generation, with an average performance improvement of 46% on the most popular data center workloads. They also incorporate several new and improved capabilities of the platform, including Intel SGX for embedded security, as well as Intel Crypto Acceleration, and Intel DL Boost for AI acceleration. These new capabilities, combined with the broad portfolio of Intel® Select Solutions and Intel® Market-Ready Solutions, enable customers to accelerate cloud, AI, HPC, network, security, and edge application deployments.
"Our third-generation Intel Xeon scalable platform is the most flexible and highest-performing Intel ever, designed to handle a diversity of workloads from cloud to network to edge," said Navin Shenoy, executive. vice president and general manager of the Data Platforms Group at Intel. "Intel has a unique ability in architecture, design, and manufacturing to deliver the breadth of intelligent silicon and solutions our customers demand."
The 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Leveraging Intel's 10-nanometer (nm) process technology, the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver up to 40 cores per processor and up to 2.65x average performance gain than a 5-year-old system ii. The platform supports up to 6 terabytes of system memory per socket, up to 8 channels of DDR4-3200 memory per socket, and up to 64 channels of PCIe Gen4 per socket.
The new 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors are optimized for today's workloads running in both on-premises and distributed multi-cloud environments. Thanks to decades of innovation, these processors offer customers a flexible architecture that includes embedded and accelerated AI and cryptography, as well as advanced security capabilities.
- Built-in AI acceleration - The latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver the AI performance, productivity, and simplicity needed to enable customers to get more valuable insights from their data. As the only data center CPU with built-in AI acceleration, extensive software optimizations, and preconfigured solutions, these new processors make it possible to incorporate AI into all applications, from the edge to the network and the cloud. Latest hardware and software optimizations deliver 74% faster AI performance compared to the previous generation and provide up to 1.5x faster performance across a broad mix of 20 typical AI workloads compared to AMD EPYC 7763, and up to 1.3x better performance across a broad mix of 20 typical AI workloads compared to the Nvidia A100 iii GPU.
- Built-in security - With hundreds of research studies and production deployments, and with its ability to continually harden over time, Intel SGX protects sensitive code and data with the least possible potential attack surface within the system. It is now available in enclaved 2-socket Xeon scalable processors that can isolate and process up to 1 terabyte of code and data to support the demands of major workloads. Combined with new features like Intel® Total Memory Encryption and Intel® Platform Firmware Resilience, the new Xeon Scalable processors address today's most pressing data protection concerns.
- Integrated Crypto Acceleration: Intel Crypto Acceleration offers breakthrough performance on a number of important cryptographic algorithms. Businesses running encryption-intensive workloads, such as online retailers that process millions of customer transactions each day, can take advantage of this ability to protect their customers' data without impacting user response time or the overall performance of the system.
Intel Xeon Scalable processors are backed by more than 500 Intel® IoT Market Ready Solutions and Intel Select Solutions, helping to accelerate customer deployments. Additionally, up to 80% of our Intel Select solutions will be renewed by the end of the year.
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Industry leading data center platform
Intel's data center platforms are the most dominant on the market, with unmatched capabilities for moving, storing, and processing data. The latest 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable platform includes Intel Optane 200 series persistent memory, Intel Optane P5800X SSDs, and Intel D5-P5316 NAND SSDs, as well as Intel Ethernet 800 series adapters and the latest Intel® Agilex FPGAs. You can find additional information about this on the fact sheet for the 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor platform.
Provide flexible performance across the cloud, network, and Intelligent Edge
Our latest third-generation scalable Xeon platform is optimized for a wide range of market segments, ranging from the cloud to the intelligent edge.
- For the cloud: 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors are designed and optimized for the demanding requirements of cloud workloads and support a wide range of service environments. More than 800 cloud service providers around the world are powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and all major cloud service providers plan to offer cloud services in 2021 with 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
- For the network: Intel's network-optimized “N-SKUs” is designed to support diverse network environments and optimized for multiple workloads and performance levels. The latest 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver, on average, 62% more performance across a number of widely deployed 5G and network workloads over the previous generation iv. Working with a broad ecosystem of more than 400 Intel® Network Builders members, Intel offers blueprints for solutions based on 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors “N SKUs”, resulting in accelerated qualification and shorter deployment time. for vRAN, NFVI, and virtual CDN, among others.
- For the Intelligent Edge: 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver the performance, security, and operational controls needed for powerful AI, complex image/video analysis, and consolidated workloads at the intelligent edge. The platform offers up to 1.56 times more AI inference performance for image classification than previous generations v.
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