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In addition to bumping up the core count of their consumer desktop lineup, Intel launched a new high end Xeon and refreshed their "prosumer" Skylake-X lineup today. The Core i9-9980XE features a 165W TDP, a $1979 MSRP, a 3.0ghz base clock and a 4.5Ghz Turbo Boost 3.0 speed, up from the 18 core 7980XE's 2.6Ghz base and 4.2Ghz boost speed. The rest of the Skylake-X lineup got similar clockspeed boosts in their respective price brackets. Meanwhile, Intel also launched a monster of a workstation chip: the Xeon W-3175X. Unlike the Skylake-X lineup, this chip only drops into LGA 3467 sockets on server motherboards. It features 6 memory channels, 28 cores running at a base speed of 3.1Ghz, a 4.3Ghz two-core turbo speed, an unlocked multiplier for tuning those speeds, and a 255W TDP that would put some GPUs to shame. Intel demoed a processor like this before, and didn't list an official MSRP. But, seeing how the Xeon Platinum 8180 goes for over $10k a pop, a whole system with one of these probably falls into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" category.
For the select, highly threaded and computing-intensive applications such as architectural and industrial design and professional content creation, Intel will deliver the unlocked Intel Xeon W-3175X processor. This new 28-core Intel Xeon processor was built with real-world performance in mind for these large, intensive workloads with up to 4.3 GHz single-core turbo frequency, 56 threads and unlocked for those who want to push performance even higher. This platform also provides 38.5 MB Intel Smart Cache, 6-channel DDR4 memory support with up to 512 GB at 2666 MHz, and ECC and standard RAS support. The new Intel Core X-series processors will be available in November; the Intel Xeon W-3175X processor will ship from Intel in December.
For the select, highly threaded and computing-intensive applications such as architectural and industrial design and professional content creation, Intel will deliver the unlocked Intel Xeon W-3175X processor. This new 28-core Intel Xeon processor was built with real-world performance in mind for these large, intensive workloads with up to 4.3 GHz single-core turbo frequency, 56 threads and unlocked for those who want to push performance even higher. This platform also provides 38.5 MB Intel Smart Cache, 6-channel DDR4 memory support with up to 512 GB at 2666 MHz, and ECC and standard RAS support. The new Intel Core X-series processors will be available in November; the Intel Xeon W-3175X processor will ship from Intel in December.