Intel Xeon 6700, 6500 Sequence Processors With Efficiency Cores Introduced

Intel unveiled two new processor sequence within the Xeon 6 household on Monday. Dubbed Intel Xeon 6700 and Xeon 6500 sequence, the brand new processors supply improved efficiency and energy effectivity in comparison with the earlier technology. It’s primarily based on the x86 pc structure and comes with as much as 86 cores. The chipmaker claimed that the newly launched chipsets additionally function devoted Efficiency cores (P-cores) and are geared toward advanced synthetic intelligence (AI) duties, conventional enterprise apps, and high-performance computing (HPC) options.

Intel Xeon 6700/6500 Sequence Processors Launched

In a newsroom submit, the chipmaker detailed the brand new processors within the Intel Xeon 6 household. Alongside the 6700 and 6500 sequence, the corporate additionally unveiled Xeon 6 for community and edge, a system-on-chip (SoC) designed for prime efficiency and energy effectivity. Notably, these are usually not retail-focused processors, and are as a substitute geared toward knowledge centres.

In line with the corporate, the Intel Xeon 6700 and 6500 sequence processors with P-cores supply 1.4X larger efficiency in comparison with the fifth technology of Intel Xeon processors, and can even deal with a extra various set of workloads, with a deal with enterprise duties. The corporate mentioned that additionally it is designed to work with AI programs and might deal with advanced duties.

Intel Xeon 6700 and 6500 sequence specs
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In comparison with the fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, the Xeon 6700 and 6500 sequence chipsets are claimed to supply as much as 1.5X higher efficiency in AI inference whereas utilizing solely two-thirds of the cores. Intel additionally claimed that the chipsets supply improved performance-per-watt effectivity permitting for five:1 consolidation of a five-year-old server on common.

Coming to technical specs, the brand new chipsets function as much as 86 cores with a Thermal Design Energy (TDP) of between 150 to 300W. It comes with as much as eight channels of DDR5 MRDIMM (multiplex ranked DIMM) reminiscence, as much as 88 lanes for PCIe 5.0 which works as much as 136 lanes for single socket design, in addition to 64 lanes CXL 2.0.

Alternatively, the Intel Xeon 6 for community and edge makes use of in-built accelerators for virtualised radio entry networks (vRAN), media, AI, and community safety. The corporate mentioned the processor is designed to handle the rising demand for community and edge options within the AI-driven world.

These SoCs additionally ship a 70 % enchancment in performance-per-watt with 2.4X the RAN capability in comparison with the earlier technology. The Xeon 6 for community and edge additionally options the Intel Media Transcode Accelerator, an in-built media accelerator that additional improves energy optimisation.