Intel just dropped a silicon monster that makes current workstation setups look like calculators. The leaked Xeon 698X beast apparently packs 86 cores inside the Granite Rapids-WS architecture while running 172 threads on Redwood Cove P-Cores. Early specs suggest a base clock hovering near 2.0 GHz but boosts upward to roughly 4.60 GHz for serious heavy lifting.
Memory junkies might drool over the 508 MB total cache split between L2 and L3 buffers. That massive pool arrives with a 350W thermal design power rating which surprisingly undercuts the older Sapphire Rapids-WS flagship. This fresh silicon seemingly delivers nearly double the cache found on the W9-3595X while jamming way more cores onto the die.
Geekbench 6 numbers surfaced showing 2532 single-core points and a multi-core score hitting 21,030 on a reference kit. Those underwhelming figures likely stem from poor software scaling rather than hardware weakness since the test rig utilized 256 GB of DDR5 RAM. Observed boost speeds actually hit 4.8 GHz during testing, which hints at potentially higher final clock rates.
Memory junkies might drool over the 508 MB total cache split between L2 and L3 buffers. That massive pool arrives with a 350W thermal design power rating which surprisingly undercuts the older Sapphire Rapids-WS flagship. This fresh silicon seemingly delivers nearly double the cache found on the W9-3595X while jamming way more cores onto the die.
Geekbench 6 numbers surfaced showing 2532 single-core points and a multi-core score hitting 21,030 on a reference kit. Those underwhelming figures likely stem from poor software scaling rather than hardware weakness since the test rig utilized 256 GB of DDR5 RAM. Observed boost speeds actually hit 4.8 GHz during testing, which hints at potentially higher final clock rates.
