In our ASRock Rack W890D8-2L2T review, we see how this Intel Xeon 600 hybrid server and workstation platform with lots of PCIe Gen5 performs

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Intel's Diamond Rapids CPUs will pack an impressive 256 P-Cores along with the latest memory and PCIe support, extending IO capabilities for next-gen AI workloads. Intel Pitches Diamond Rapids As A "Versatile" CPU For Enterprise-Scale Agentic AI, Packing Up To 256 P-Cores Intel 18A has found its success with Panther Lake for Client and Clearwater Forest for data centers. Now, Intel is building its next-gen portfolio on its next major process technology called 18A-P. The first CPUs that will feature this technology are called Diamond Rapids, which will power the Xeon 7 data center chip family. At Computex this year, […]

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Intel's Granite Rapids CPUs have finally made it to the workstation market as the Xeon 600 family. Today we are reviewing the Xeon 658X, a 24 core chip that packs a punch, thanks in part to its memory bandwidth

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Intel Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPUs will offer up to 256 cores based on the next-gen P-Core technology to tackle AMD EPYC Venice. Intel & AMD Will Battle Out In The 200+ Core Count "Data Center" CPU Segment, As Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" Set To Launch In 2027 The original plans for Diamond Rapids, Intel's upcoming Xeon platform, were quite ambitious. But it looks like the released chips will be a leaner version of what was initially planned. If you remember our previous reports on Diamond Rapids, we discussed 384- and 512-core count variants, going beyond anything on the market. […]

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We review the ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2, an 8x NVIDIA HGX B300 server with enormous network bandwidth and two liquid-cooling options

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Intel is announcing today that it is the first to support 8000 MT/s DDR5 RDIMM on its Xeon 6 platform, while 2nd Gen MRDIMM with up to 8800 MT/s is coming to select Xeon 6 SKUs with faster bandwidth to tackle high-end AI workloads. Intel Redefines Memory Support For Data Centers, With Xeon 6 CPUs Adopting 8000 MT/s DDR5 RDIMMs Moving data faster is becoming essential as Agentic AI workloads continue to scale. That has pushed data center chipmakers into adopting next-gen solutions, and Intel is leading the race with its Xeon 6 CPUs being the first to market with […]

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Intel this morning is announcing that parts of the Xeon 6 family are going to be getting mid-generation memory upgrades with support for DDR5-8000 RDIMMs as well as Gen 2 MRDIMMs

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Intel has invested €5 billion at its Ireland Fab34 to expand manufacturing of its "Intel 3" tech that will be used in Xeon 6 & Next-Gen Xeon chips. Intel's Key Data Center Fab In Ireland Gets €5 Billion Invested Towards Manufacturing, Will Be Used To Scale "Intel 3" For Xeon 6 & Next-Gen Xeon CPUs Today, Intel is announcing a €5 billion investment at its Leixlip campus, which is based in Ireland. This investment is part of a broader manufacturing expansion plan for the European region. The investment comes as the need for AI and high-performance chips is growing at […]

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The Intel Xeon 6 SoC family, codenamed Granite Rapids-D, adds more acceleration and faster networking to the popular series

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Intel has pulled back the curtain on the frequency behaviour of its new Granite Rapids-WS Xeon 600 workstation series. While marketing materials highlight a peak of 4.9 GHz via Turbo Boost Max 3.0, newly published documentation confirms that sustained speeds are heavily dependent on the instruction set being utilised.

As shared by InstLatX64 (via TechPowerUP), the top-tier SKU in the Xeon 600 Series, the 698X, features 86 cores and 172 threads paired with a massive 336 MB of L3 cache, making it a powerhouse for multi-threaded professional applications. The frequency scaling across different workloads reveals the thermal and power trade-offs required to keep the 86-core silicon stable. In non-AVX workloads, the CPU maintains its peak of 4.8 GHz in single-core mode, but as the active core count increases, the boost frequency can drop to as low as 3.0 GHz. In such workloads, the base frequency is set at 2.0 GHz.

Moving on to the AVX-2 instruction set, the CPU can't boost as high, capping at 4.4 GHz in single-core and dropping to 2.9 GHz as the core count increases. In this case, the base frequency is set at 1.7 GHz. In AVX-512, clock frequencies are even lower, with the maximum turbo frequency ranging from 4.2 GHz to 2.5 GHz and the base frequency dropping to 1.3 GHz. Lastly, we have AMX, where the maximum boost frequency drops even further at the lower end, ranging from 4.2 GHz to 2.0 GHz, and the base frequency goes as low as 1.1 GHz.

KitGuru says: Seeing the Xeon 698X drop to nearly 1.1 GHz under heavy AMX workloads might look alarming, but it is standard for chips of this density. Fortunately, this CPU is unlocked, meaning overclocking is a possibility if you want to bump the clock frequencies.