Intel Xeon 6900P Reasserts Intel Server Leadership
Intel has launched the Xeon 6900P series, its first major server CPU advancement in seven years, featuring up to 128 P-cores, 12 memory channels, and targeting high-performance computing and AI workloads.
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Intel has reasserted its leadership in the server CPU market with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P series, marking its first significant advancement in x86 server CPUs in nearly seven years. The Xeon 6900P series features up to 128 P-cores, 12 memory channels, and advanced process technology, allowing Intel to compete directly with AMD's EPYC offerings. This new series includes five public SKUs ranging from 72 to 128 cores, with the top model, the Xeon 6980P, boasting a high TDP of 500W. The architecture supports 192 PCIe Gen5 lanes and CXL 2.0, enhancing its capabilities for high-performance computing. Intel's new design integrates memory controllers into compute tiles, improving performance and memory access. The Xeon 6900P series is positioned for demanding workloads, including AI and cloud-native applications, and is expected to attract interest from hyper-scalers and enterprises looking for high core counts and advanced features. The introduction of this series indicates a strategic shift for Intel, as it aims to regain market share lost to AMD by offering competitive raw CPU performance alongside integrated accelerators.
- Intel launches the Xeon 6900P series, its first major server CPU advancement in seven years.
- The Xeon 6900P features up to 128 P-cores and 12 memory channels, enhancing performance.
- The series includes five SKUs, with the top model having a TDP of 500W.
- New architecture integrates memory controllers into compute tiles for better performance.
- The Xeon 6900P is aimed at high-performance computing and AI workloads.
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5 commentsIt seems to be that Intel have got up to 128 cores and that's more than amd provided you ignore the 128 core amd chips. Also it's on Intel 3 which is indeed very exciting, but I'm under the impression we don't really know how it compares to TSMC yet.
12 channel ddr5 is great. Internal three way numa a little dubious but not really more bother than the epyc chips. Overall looks like a huge step forward for Intel.
The new SuperMicro X14 can fit Dual 6900P, or 256 Core / 512 Thread in a single 2U along with 6TB of Memory ( if you can afford it ).
For comparison, Stack Overflow is running on 8 Server with a total of 64 CPU Core. Not to mention the CPU are from 2015 era.
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