- Intel Granite Rapids-WS Listing Spotted Online shows 86 cores with 172 threads
- Benchmark -input hinted at 4.8 GHz Turbo Boost speeds on limited cores
- Granite Rapids-WS could be a serious challenger for AMD Threadripper
Intel is on something of a roll at the moment with major investments from the US government and Nvidia, plus potential future interest from other members of the magnificent 7 – and now a new benchmark list may have revealed its most ambitious workstation chip yet.
Hardware Leaker @momomo_us on X discovered an Openbenchmarking.org Post showing an “Intel 0000” granite Rapids-WS processor configured with 86 cores and 172 threads.
The input shows watch speeds reaching 4.8 GHz, although this is probably a turbo figure for a small number of cores rather than an all-core base.
Takes AMD’s thread ripper
Key information, including thermal design power and full platform specifications, was not specified, so the submission must be treated as an early leak rather than confirmation of the final specifications.
TechPowerup Says Granite Rapids-WS are derived from Intel’s XCC server Compute Dies, combining two calculation tiles for the 86 cores along with two I/O tiles for PCIe and memory connection.
Reaching higher core counts would probably require Intel’s greater UCC Die and a larger package.
Memory support for this workstation SKU is not yet known.
The XCC family’s server quality supports the DDR5-6400, at higher speeds possible using MRI DIMMS, and a workstation variant could adopt an eight-channel layout to balance capacity towards the board’s complexity.
Cooling requirements also remain a mystery as no basic watch or thermal envelope was specified.
The test system, shown in Openbenchmarking.org -Post (as you can see above), included 512 GB of memory, a 1TB Seagate ZP1000GM3004 SSD and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.
The system also reported on the use of GCC 11.5.0, Gnome Shell 40.10 and an X Server Display Driver.
Intel has recently scaled up his advanced desktop focus and left professionals to choose between older workstation parts or AMD’s offerings.
If the details are accurate, Granite Rapids-WS could give Intel a quick route back to the hot and workstation segment where AMD’s thread ripper has dominated.
For OEMs and creators, the adoption of the real world will adopt Granite Rapids-WS is related to the final performance, efficiency, software scaling and how convincing chip challenges AMD’s Threadripper dominance.
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