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WCCFTECH has leaked Xeon Platinum Cinebench numbers...

I know that server workloads are significantly different and Cinebench is very workstation oriented. But the remarkable thing is that the 2.7GHZ clocked 24 core platinum Xeon beats the 2.1GHZ 28 core platinum Xeon chip. But there is a pretty big distance on all the Skylakes above the older Xeons. I guess it all depends on if your server software needs the extra cores more than the frequency. But interesting stuff. Given the 2.2GHZ base clocks on the best 32 core Epych chips and Intel's IPC advantage, it looks like Intel is going to maintain the overall performance lead on most workloads. And if this is true. WOW:

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 is the part believed to have 28 cores and is clocked at an astounding 2.5 GHz core clock. This is very impressive for a processor with this amount of cores. It also has an L3 cache of 38.5 MB as well as a TDP of just 205 watts. The architectural improvements that set Skylake apart from Broadwell can be found throughout this lineup so it would be fair to call it Intel’s Skylake rollout to the server market.

This is more speculative but also interesting: So far Intel has four families of Xeon planned: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The Platinum family will be the 8000 series, gold will be 6000 and 500, silver will be 4000 and bronze will be the 3000 series. Core scaling is thought to start from 10 cores all the way up to 28 cores (or even 32 cores if the processor we saw earlier ends up being part of this lineup.




http://wccftech.com/intel-28-core-xeon-platinum-8176-8168-xeon-gold-6161-6142-benchmarks/