Intel Upgrades Workstation CPUs across all Segments
By Roger Chandler, Vice President and General Manager of Creator and Workstation Solutions (CCG)
Engineering, design and visual effects have been transformed by digital workflows and AI. Intel is ensuring its processors meet the demanding needs of engineers, media and entertainment and data science professionals. To do that, we’ve upgraded our entire workstation CPU product line.
- In January, Intel announced the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor line-up – part of the Sapphire Rapids family tree (see more here: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor line-up)
- In February, we announced the Intel® Xeon® W-3400 and Intel® Xeon® W-2400 workstation processors, led by the Intel® Xeon® w9-3495X, delivering the ultimate workstation solution (see more here: Intel® Xeon® W-3400 and Intel® Xeon® W-2400 workstation processors)1
- In March, we announced the 13th Generation Intel® Core™ processors for mobile (H and HX SKUs) and standard desktop (S SKU) workstations (see more here: 13th Generation Intel® Core™ mobile (H and HX SKUs)
What Makes a PC a Workstation
Intel Xeon-W processors have long been recognized as the key component of a workstation. Error Correcting Code (ECC) Memory is a key feature for usages like financial analysis and engineering, where any amount of data corruption caused by a bit flip could be catastrophic. With the introduction of 12th Gen Intel Core processors, we have brought ECC to mobile and desktop workstations for added stability and reliability for this mission-critical work.
Workstation users are performance-oriented, and some of that performance comes from discrete graphics. For workstations, PC manufacturers pick some of the best discrete graphics cards for their systems.
ISV certifications, in which specific PCs are certified by key engineering and high-end creator software vendors, add a level of reliability you only get on workstations. In addition, Intel engineers work closely with ISV development teams to ensure Intel architecture is optimized to improve the user experience on their apps.
Extreme Performance to Amp Up Your Creativity
Workstations such as HP’s Z line, Lenovo’s ThinkStation and ThinkPad Series and Dell’s Precision systems meet the requirements of performance-intensive workloads and demanding technical computing requirements. Professionals and enthusiasts need the most computational power and performance for demanding use cases. There’s no shortage of incredibly important workloads that power users deal with on a daily basis!
High performance Intel® Xeon® W-powered workstations are flagship platforms for client computing. Improvements that come with the Intel Xeon W platform transform users’ abilities to change the world and invoke the fullest expression of their creations. They are developing solutions in life sciences, they're designing new products and buildings, they're creating video games and movies, they're creating next-generation machine learning algorithms.
The use cases vary greatly. For the most multi-threaded performance-hungry workloads, 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are being used in our customers’ most powerful 2-socket systems, with up to 56 cores and up to 112 PCIe lanes per CPU socket. The new 13th Gen Intel Core processors – available for both mobile and entry workstations — are bringing incredible performance for mobile creators, construction project managers and product design professionals.
What remains consistent is that all users need more higher-performance cores and platform-level features that solve for their specific needs, and expandable systems to add high-speed storage or accelerators.
Intel’s workstation platforms are part of our continuum of products – from entry mobile and desktop PCs all the way up to the flagship 56-core Xeon-based tower. As users need more performance, they can seamlessly upgrade and climb the stack of product offerings.
Intel is also focused on making sure we have the right software partnerships in place for each vertical segment. From Adobe and Autodesk to Wondershare, our ISV partners are creating complex high-performance-oriented applications and provide infinite possibilities for professional innovators.
High Performance — Redefined
When you look at performance, features and stability, the new Intel Xeon W-3400 processors deliver the ultimate workstation solution.1
They bring performance improvement across many areas, addressing needs in major professional segments like media and entertainment, architecture, engineering and data science.
Generation over generation, the new Intel Xeon W processors achieve up to 28% higher single-threaded performance and up to 120% more multi-threaded performance.2 In addition, we increased the cache, the PCIe lanes, added support for DDR5 RDIMM memory to enable a new level of data transfer/performance; and we’re including vPro support, Wi-Fi 6E, along with Intel® Deep Learning Boost 3.0 and advanced matrix extension (AMX) instructions to speed up AI workloads.
The processors for workstations – from the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable line to the Intel Xeon W family, to 13th Gen Intel Core processors — offer several platform advantages, support for PCIe gen 5 for high speed I/O and expandability, and advanced instruction sets for AI specific workloads.
Many of the key business capabilities that IT managers look for – such as increased security technologies, manageability tools and remote activation – are available on Intel-based workstations thanks to Intel® vPro®. Built for business environments of all sizes, Intel vPro is one more reason why performance end users look for Intel-based workstations.
Many workstation users prioritize stability. But others want to push the power to the limits and overclock. We’re offering a variety of solutions in each SKU stack to meet the unique needs of every professional innovator out there.
We are also excited by the overclocking records that our motherboard partners have achieved using our new Intel Xeon w9-3495X. Notably, ASUS achieved a Cinebench R23 score of over 130,000, blowing away the previous record of 120,000 by our competitors’ platform. We look forward to continuing to showcase the fantastic capabilities of new workstation processors for high-end content creation, engineering and data science.3
At the end of the day, it’s about seeing your creative spark come to life, for you and your audience. A more powerful workstation gets you to those magic moments faster than before.
Learn more about Intel’s workstation processor launches at the Intel Newsroom.
4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Intel® Xeon® W Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffTNl_QAr4A
Intel vPro® Launch for Commercial - powered by 13th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/new-intel-vpro-platform-with-13th-gen-processors.html
Disclaimers:
- As of January 2023, based on overall experience enabled by unique features and impressive performance of the Intel® Xeon® w9-3495X processor, including in comparison to prior generation and competition's workstation processor offerings.
- As estimated by measurements made using SPErate2017_int _base 2017 (1-copy & n-copy) using Intel validation platform comparing Intel Xeon w9-3495X versus Intel® Xeon® W-3275.
- Details here: https://www.asus.com/news/bbvbz0xaueocvm3d/?fbclid=IwAR3TXdmkEHnG6Ssgk_OeB-UdweKGJijKgs2tSofKHUiXiHk9evA6QZJE55g
See intel.com/performanceindex for configuration details. Results may vary.
Roger leads the team responsible for Intel's client discrete graphics business and Intel's global PC software developer relations program.
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