Intel has unveiled the latest performance and internal projections of its upcoming 5th Gen Emerald Rapids & next-gen Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs.

Intel 5th Gen Emerald Rapids Xeon 64-Core CPU Offers Up To 40% Better Performance Than 56-Core Sapphire Rapids

Talking about its Xeon CPUs during SC23, Intel unveiled new performance metrics which include actual results for its upcoming 5th Gen Emerald Rapids and projections for its next-gen Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs. The chipmaker compared the results against its own Sapphire Rapids 4th Gen chips while also showcasing HPC metrics for the Xeon Max CPUs against AMD's EPYC Genoa 96-core chips.

Starting with the details, the Intel 5th Gen Emerald Rapids CPUs will be pin-compatible with the Sapphire Rapids CPUs on the Eagle Stream platform. They utilize the same LGA-4677 socket and offer mainly an optimized design with few additional cores/threads, larger pools of cache, & focus on higher performance per watt.

The company highlights that Emerald Rapids Xeon CPUs will offer workload-optimized performance and energy-efficient compute. At the same time, the addition of faster DDR5-5600 memory should result in higher bandwidth and transfer speedups. The 5th Gen Xeons will also offer CXL 1.0 and 2.0 support along with up to 80 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes. Intel touts a 40% speedup in performance. Details are mentioned below:

Intel Emerald Rapids (Xeon 8592+ 64-Core) vs Sapphire Rapids (Xeon 8480+ 56 Cores):

AI Speech Recognition: 1.4x BoostHPC LAMMPS (Copper): 1.4x BoostMedia Transcode (FFMPEG): 1.2x Boost

Some of the features to expect within the 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" CPUs include:

Up To 3x larger LLC cacheIncreased Memory SpeedHigher CPU Core Count (Up To 64 Cores)CXL Type 3 high bandwidth interfaceWorkload optimizations (Intel AE)Optimized Power ModeUp To 17% General Purpose Perf/Wat IncreaseOffload CPU cores with Intel Accelerator Engines for Power EfficiencyHuge performance boost across inference and trainingIntel AMX for built-in AI AccelerationOut-of-box deployed with Optimized SW stacks

Intel 5th Gen Emerald Rapids Xeon CPU Specs "Preliminary":