Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU — chip armed with core count approaching the flagship AMD Threadripper 9995WX, boasts a 4.8GHz boost clock

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Granite Rapids-WS has the chance to outdo Threadripper 9000WX in core count, similar to what the architecture has done for Intel on the server side.

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It looks like Intel is getting ready to launch a new branch of Granite Rapids processors designed to compete directly with AMD’s Ryzen 9000WX series parts based on Zen 5. Resident X poster Momomo_us found an openbenchmark.org listing featuring an 86-core CPU codenamed Granite Rapid-WS.

The only specs we have are the cores, threads, and clock speed, featuring the aforementioned 86 cores and 172 threads operating at up to 4.8GHz. But being based on the Granite Rapids architecture, it is very likely that this chip is a much higher clocking offshoot of the Xeon 6787P, which also boasts 86 cores across two compute tiles, but peaks at a 3.8GHz peak turbo clock speed.

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  • User of Computers
    Looks to be quite strong.
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  • DS426
    Might actually help get AMD's TR prices a little more reasonable; sounds competitive.

    Limiting Granite Rapids-WS to two compute dies makes sense to me as many workstation workloads would probably prefer the higher clocks rather than having another 10 cores or even more. Need 128 cores? Just go full server CPU.
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  • bit_user
    User of Computers said:
    Looks to be quite strong.
    The main downside is that the cores are little more than a port of Raptor Cove to Intel 3.

    Looking at Granite Rapids vs. Turin benchmarks should be a fairly good guide to how well the respective workstation products will compare.

    Regardless, I'm glad to see Intel staying in the workstation game. I expect they'll bring MRDIMM support, which will be a good thing.
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  • bit_user
    DS426 said:
    Limiting Granite Rapids-WS to two compute dies makes sense to me as many workstation workloads would probably prefer the higher clocks rather than having another 10 cores or even more.
    But 4.8 GHz still isn't all that high-clocking.
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  • User of Computers
    bit_user said:
    The main downside is that the cores are little more than a port of Raptor Cove to Intel 3.

    Looking at Granite Rapids vs. Turin benchmarks should be a fairly good guide to how well the respective workstation products will compare.

    Regardless, I'm glad to see Intel staying in the workstation game. I expect they'll bring MRDIMM support, which will be a good thing.
    Raptor Cove is a quite strong core, especially when paired with the efficiency improvements that were brought about by Intel 3 (not to mention the additional cache).
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  • bit_user
    User of Computers said:
    Raptor Cove is a quite strong core, especially when paired with the efficiency improvements that were brought about by Intel 3 (not to mention the additional cache).
    I didn't say it's bad, but the main thing you're getting over the cores in Sapphire Rapids is better efficiency. Of course, that can enable higher multi-core clock speeds, but my point was that IPC is nearly the same.

    As I said, there are already plenty of benchmarks between Turin and Granite Rapids, in case someone wants an idea of what to expect.
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  • A Stoner
    Competition is good. About time Intel reentered this category.

    Hopefully AMD can reenter the high end graphics game.
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  • DS426
    bit_user said:
    But 4.8 GHz still isn't all that high-clocking.
    True. My point was mainly about getting the most out of a two-compute-die Granite Rapids workstation chip. Hopefully this isn't the best that Intel can do.
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  • derekullo
    User of Computers said:
    Looks to be quite strong.
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence !
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  • crumpycampbell
    Lolz intel like we can rip thread's too see if they can this time what's it like their 4th of 5th try now 😅
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