Intel highlights broad industry adoption
across all major CSPs, OEMs, ODMs and ISVs, and showcases increased
performance in AI, networking and high performance
computing.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Expansive customer and partner adoption from AWS, Cisco,
Cloudera, CoreWeave, Dell Technologies, Dropbox, Ericsson, Fujitsu,
Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Cloud, Inspur
Information, IONOS, Lenovo, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA, Oracle Cloud, OVHcloud, phoenixNAP,
RedHat, SAP, SuperMicro, Telefonica and VMware, among others.
- With the most built-in accelerators of any CPU in the world for
key workloads such as AI, analytics, networking, security, storage
and high performance computing (HPC), 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
and Intel Max Series families deliver leadership performance in a
purpose-built workload-first approach.
- 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are Intel’s most
sustainable data center processors, delivering a range of features
for optimizing power and performance, making optimal use of CPU
resources to help achieve customers’ sustainability goals.
- When compared with prior generations, 4th Gen Xeon customers
can expect a 2.9x1 average performance per watt efficiency
improvement for targeted workloads when utilizing built-in
accelerators, up to 70-watt2 power savings per CPU in optimized
power mode with minimal performance loss for select workloads and a
52% to 66% lower total cost of ownership (TCO)3.
Intel today marked one of the most important product launches in
company history with the unveiling of 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel® Xeon® CPU Max
Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel® Data Center
GPU Max Series (code-named Ponte Vecchio), delivering for its
customers a leap in data center performance, efficiency, security
and new capabilities for AI, the cloud, the network and edge, and
the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
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On Jan. 10, 2023, Intel introduced 4th
Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, expanding on its purpose-built,
workload-first strategy and approach. (Credit: Intel
Corporation)
Working alongside its customers and partners with 4th Gen Xeon,
Intel is delivering differentiated solutions and systems at scale
to tackle their biggest computing challenges. Intel’s unique
approach to providing purpose-built, workload-first acceleration
and highly optimized software tuned for specific workloads enables
the company to deliver the right performance at the right power for
optimal overall total cost of ownership.
Press Kit: 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors
Additionally, as Intel’s most sustainable data center
processors, 4th Gen Xeon processors deliver customers a range of
features for managing power and performance, making the optimal use
of CPU resources to help achieve their sustainability goals.
“The launch of 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and the Max
Series product family is a pivotal moment in fueling Intel’s
turnaround, reigniting our path to leadership in the data center
and growing our footprint in new arenas,” said Sandra Rivera, Intel
executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center and
AI Group. “Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon and the Max Series product family
deliver what customers truly want – leadership performance and
reliability within a secure environment for their real-world
requirements – driving faster time to value and powering their pace
of innovation.”
Unlike any other data center processor on the market and already
in the hands of customers today, the 4th Gen Xeon family greatly
expands on Intel’s purpose-built, workload-first strategy and
approach.
Leading Performance and Sustainability Benefits with the Most
Built-In Acceleration
Today, there are over 100 million Xeons installed in the market
– from on-prem servers running IT services, including new
as-a-service business models, to networking equipment managing
Internet traffic, to wireless base station computing at the edge,
to cloud services.
Building on decades of data center, network and intelligent edge
innovation and leadership, new 4th Gen Xeon processors deliver
leading performance with the most built-in accelerators of any CPU
in the world to tackle customers’ most important computing
challenges across AI, analytics, networking, security, storage and
HPC.
When comparing with prior generations, 4th Gen Intel Xeon
customers can expect a 2.9x1 average performance per watt
efficiency improvement for targeted workloads when utilizing
built-in accelerators, up to 70-watt2 power savings per CPU in
optimized power mode with minimal performance loss, and a 52% to
66% lower TCO3.
Sustainability The expansiveness of built-in accelerators
included in 4th Gen Xeon means Intel delivers platform-level power
savings, lessening the need for additional discrete acceleration
and helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Additionally, the new Optimized Power Mode can deliver up to 20%
socket power savings with a less than 5% performance impact for
selected workloads11. New innovations in air and liquid cooling
reduce total data center energy consumption further; and for the
manufacturing of 4th Gen Xeon, it’s been built with 90% or more
renewable electricity at Intel sites with state-of-the-art water
reclamation facilities.
Artificial Intelligence In AI, and compared to previous
generation, 4th Gen Xeon processors achieve up to 10x5,6 higher
PyTorch real-time inference and training performance with built-in
Intel® Advanced Matrix Extension (Intel® AMX) accelerators. Intel’s
4th Gen Xeon unlocks new levels of performance for inference and
training across a wide breadth of AI workloads. The Xeon CPU Max
Series expands on these capabilities for natural language
processing, with customers seeing up to a 20x12 speed-up on large
language models. With the delivery of Intel’s AI software suite,
developers can use their AI tool of choice, while increasing
productivity and speeding time to AI development. The suite is
portable from the workstation, enabling it to scale out in the
cloud and all the way out to the edge. And it has been validated
with over 400 machine learning and deep learning AI models across
the most common AI uses cases in every business segment.
Networking 4th Gen Xeon offers a family of processors
specifically optimized for high-performance, low-latency network
and edge workloads. These processors are a critical part of the
foundation driving a more software-defined future for industries
ranging from telecommunications and retail to manufacturing and
smart cities. For 5G core workloads, built-in accelerators help
increase throughput and decrease latency, while advances in power
management enhance both the responsiveness and the efficiency of
the platform. And, when compared to previous generations, 4th Gen
Xeon delivers up to twice the virtualized radio access network
(vRAN) capacity without increasing power consumption. This enables
communications service providers to double the performance-per-watt
to meet their critical performance, scaling and energy efficiency
needs.
High Performance Computing 4th Gen Xeon and the Intel Max
Series product family bring a scalable, balanced architecture that
integrates CPU and GPU with oneAPI’s open software ecosystem for
demanding computing workloads in HPC and AI, solving the world’s
most challenging problems.
The Xeon CPU Max Series is the first and only x86-based
processor with high bandwidth memory, accelerating many HPC
workloads without the need for code changes. The Intel Data Center
GPU Max Series is Intel’s highest-density processor and will be
available in several form factors that address different customer
needs.
The Xeon CPU Max Series offers 64 gigabytes of high bandwidth
memory (HBM2e) on the package, significantly increasing data
throughput for HPC and AI workloads. Compared with top-end 3rd Gen
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the Xeon CPU Max Series provides
up to 3.7 times10 more performance on a range of real-world
applications like energy and earth systems modeling.
Further, the Data Center GPU Max Series packs over 100 billion
transistors into a 47-tile package, bringing new levels of
throughput to challenging workloads like physics, financial
services and life sciences. When paired with the Xeon CPU Max
Series, the combined platform achieves up to 12.8 times13 greater
performance than the prior generation when running the LAMMPS
molecular dynamics simulator.
Most Feature-Rich and Secure Xeon Platform Yet
Signifying the biggest platform transformation Intel has
delivered, not only is 4th Gen Xeon a marvel of acceleration, but
it is also an achievement in manufacturing, combining up to four
Intel 7-built tiles on a single package, connected using Intel EMIB
(embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) packaging technology and
delivering new features including increased memory bandwidth with
DDR5, increased I/O bandwidth with PCIe5.0 and Compute Express Link
(CXL) 1.1 interconnect.
At the foundation of it all is security. With 4th Gen Xeon,
Intel is delivering the most comprehensive confidential computing
portfolio of any data center silicon provider in the industry,
enhancing data security, regulatory compliance and data
sovereignty. Intel remains the only silicon provider to offer
application isolation for data center computing with Intel®
Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), which provides today’s
smallest attack surface for confidential computing in private,
public and cloud-to-edge environments. Additionally, Intel’s new
virtual-machine (VM) isolation technology, Intel® Trust Domain
Extensions (Intel® TDX), is ideal for porting existing applications
into a confidential environment and will debut with Microsoft
Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud.
Finally, the modular architecture of 4th Gen Xeon allows Intel
to offer a wide range of processors across nearly 50 targeted SKUs
for customer use cases or applications, from mainstream
general-purpose SKUs to purpose-built SKUs for cloud, database and
analytics, networking, storage, and single-socket edge use cases.
The 4th Gen Xeon processor family is On Demand-capable and varies
in core count, frequency, mix of accelerators, power envelope and
memory throughput as is appropriate for target use cases and form
factors addressing customers’ real-world requirements.
SKU TABLE: SKUs for 4th Gen Xeon and Intel Xeon CPU Max
Series
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating
world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches
lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the
design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our
customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the
cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash
the potential of data to transform business and society for the
better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to
newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
1 Geomean of following workloads: RocksDB (IAA vs ZTD),
ClickHouse (IAA vs ZTD), SPDK large media and database request
proxies (DSA vs out of box), Image Classification ResNet-50 (AMX vs
VNNI), Object Detection SSD-ResNet-34 (AMX vs VNNI), QATzip (QAT vs
zlib)
2 1-node, Intel Reference Validation Platform, 2x Intel® Xeon
8480+ (56C, 2GHz, 350W TDP), HT On, Turbo ON, Total Memory: 1 TB
(16 slots/ 64GB/ 4800 MHz), 1x P4510 3.84TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 drive,
BIOS: 0091.D05, (ucode:0x2b0000c0), CentOS Stream 8,
5.15.0-spr.bkc.pc.10.4.11.x86_64, Java Perf/Watt w/
openjdk-11+28_linux-x64_bin, 112 instances, 1550MB Initial/Max heap
size, Tested by Intel as of Oct 2022.
3 ResNet50 Image Classification New Configuration: 1-node, 2x
pre-production 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable 8490H processor (60
core) with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX), on
pre-production SuperMicro SYS-221H-TNR with 1024GB DDR5 memory
(16x64 GB), microcode 0x2b0000c0, HT On, Turbo On, SNC Off, CentOS
Stream 8, 5.19.16-301.fc37.x86_64, 1x3.84TB P5510 NVMe, 10GbE
x540-AT2, Intel TF 2.10, AI Model=Resnet 50 v1_5, best scores
achieved: BS1 AMX 1 core/instance (max. 15ms SLA), using physical
cores, tested by Intel November 2022. Baseline: 1-node, 2x
production 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable 8380 Processor ( 40 cores)
on SuperMicro SYS-220U-TNR, DDR4 memory total 1024GB (16x64 GB),
microcode 0xd000375, HT On, Turbo On, SNC Off, CentOS Stream 8,
5.19.16-301.fc37.x86_64, 1x3.84TB P5510 NVMe, 10GbE x540-AT2, Intel
TF 2.10, AI Model=Resnet 50 v1_5, best scores achieved: BS1 INT8 2
cores/instance (max. 15ms SLA), using physical cores, tested by
Intel November 2022. For a 50 server fleet of 3rd Gen Xeon 8380
(RN50 w/DLBoost), estimated as of November 2022: CapEx costs:
$1.64M OpEx costs (4 year, includes power and cooling utility
costs, infrastructure and hardware maintenance costs): $739.9K
Energy use in kWh (4 year, per server): 44627, PUE 1.6 Other
assumptions: utility cost $0.1/kWh, kWh to kg CO2 factor 0.42394
For a 17 server fleet of 4th Gen Xeon 8490H (RN50 w/AMX),
estimated as of November 2022: CapEx costs: $799.4K OpEx costs (4
year, includes power and cooling utility costs, infrastructure and
hardware maintenance costs): $275.3K Energy use in kWh (4 year,
per server): 58581, PUE 1.6
AI -- 55% lower TCO by deploying fewer 4th Gen Intel® Xeon®
processor-based servers to meet the same performance requirement.
See [E7] at intel.com/processorclaims: 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
processors. Results may vary. Database -- 52% lower TCO by
deploying fewer 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers to
meet the same performance requirement. See [E8] at
intel.com/processorclaims: 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Results may vary. HPC -- 66% lower TCO by deploying fewer Intel®
Xeon® CPU Max processor-based servers to meet the same performance
requirement. See [E9] at intel.com/processorclaims: 4th Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable processors. Results may vary.
4 Geomean of HP Linpack, Stream Triad, SPECrate2017_fp_base est,
SPECrate2017_int_base est. See [G2, G4, G6] at
intel.com/processorclaims: 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable.
5 Up to 10x higher PyTorch real-time inference performance with
built-in Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) (BF16) vs.
the prior generation (FP32) PyTorch geomean of ResNet50,
Bert-Large, MaskRCNN, SSD-ResNet34, RNN-T, Resnext101.
6 Up to 10x higher PyTorch training performance with built-in
Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) (BF16) vs. the prior
generation (FP32) PyTorch geomean of ResNet50, Bert-Large, DLRM,
MaskRCNN, SSD-ResNet34, RNN-T.
7 Estimated as of 8/30/2022 based on 4th generation Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processor architecture improvements vs 3rd
generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor at similar core count,
socket power and frequency on a test scenario using FlexRAN™
software. Results may vary.
8 Up to 95% fewer cores and 2x higher level 1 compression
throughput with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H using integrated
Intel QAT vs. prior generation. 8490H: 1-node, pre-production
platform with 2x 4th Gen Intel® Xeon Scalable Processor (60 core)
with integrated Intel QuickAssist Accelerator (Intel QAT), QAT
device utilized=8(2 sockets active), with Total 1024GB (16x64 GB)
DDR5 memory, microcode 0xf000380, HT On, Turbo Off, SNC Off, Ubuntu
22.04.1 LTS, 5.15.0-47-generic, 1x 1.92TB Intel® SSDSC2KG01, QAT
v20.l.0.9.1 , QATzip v1.0.9 , ISA-L v2.3.0, tested by Intel
September 2022. 8380: 1-node, 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
Processors( 40 cores) on Coyote Pass platform, DDR4 memory total
1024GB (16x64 GB), microcode 0xd000375, HT On, Turbo Off, SNC Off,
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, 5.15.0-47-generic, 1x 1.92TB Intel
SSDSC2KG01,QAT v1.7.l.4.16, QATzip v1.0.9 , ISA-L v2.3.0, tested by
Intel October 2022.
9 Up to 3x higher RocksDB performance with 4th Gen Intel Xeon
Platinum 8490H using integrated Intel IAA vs. prior generation.
8490H: 1-node, pre-production Intel platform with 2x 4th Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable Processor (60 cores) with integrated Intel In-Memory
Analytics Accelerator (Intel IAA), HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory
1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 4800), microcode 0xf000380, 1x 1.92TB INTEL
SSDSC2KG01, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, 5.18.12-051812-generic, QPL
v0.1.21,accel-config-v3.4.6.4, ZSTD v1.5.2, RocksDB v6.4.6
(db_bench), tested by Intel September 2022. 8380: 1-node, 2x 3rd
Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors( 40 cores) on Coyote Pass
platform, HT On, Turbo On, SNC Off, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB
DDR4 3200), microcode 0xd000375, 1x 1.92TB INTEL SSDSC2KG01, Ubuntu
22.04.1 LTS, 5.18.12-051812-generic, ZSTD v1.5.2, RocksDB v6.4.6
(db_bench), tested by Intel October 2022.
10 Intel® Xeon® 8380: Test by Intel as of 10/7/2022. 1-node, 2x
Intel® Xeon® 8380 CPU, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 256 GB
(16x16GB 3200MT/s DDR4), BIOS Version
SE5C620.86B.01.01.0006.2207150335, ucode revision=0xd000375, Rocky
Linux 8.6, Linux version 4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.crt1.x86_64, YASK
v3.05.07 Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series: Test by Intel as of ww36’22.
1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU Max SeriesHT On, Turbo On, SNC4, Total
Memory 128 GB (8x16GB HBM2 3200MT/s), BIOS Version
SE5C7411.86B.8424.D03.2208100444, ucode revision=0x2c000020, CentOS
Stream 8, Linux version
5.19.0-rc6.0712.intel_next.1.x86_64+server, YASK v3.05.07.
11 Up to 20% system power savings utilizing 4th Gen Xeon
Scalable with Optimized Power mode on vs off on select workloads
including SpecJBB, SPECINT and NIGNX key handshake.
12 AMD Milan: Tested by Numenta as of 11/28/2022. 1-node, 2x AMD
EPYC 7R13 on AWS m6a.48xlarge, 768 GB DDR4-3200, Ubuntu 20.04
Kernel 5.15, OpenVINO 2022.3, BERT-Large, Sequence Length 512,
Batch Size 1
Intel® Xeon® 8480+: Tested by Numenta as of 11/28/2022. 1-node,
2x Intel® Xeon® 8480+, 512 GB DDR5-4800, Ubuntu 22.04 Kernel 5.17,
OpenVINO 2022.3, Numenta-Optimized BERT-Large, Sequence Length 512,
Batch Size 1
Intel® Xeon® Max 9468: Tested by Numenta as of 11/30/2022.
1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® Max 9468, 128 GB HBM2e 3200 MT/s, Ubuntu
22.04 Kernel 5.15, OpenVINO 2022.3, Numenta-Optimized BERT-Large,
Sequence Length 512, Batch Size 1
13 Intel® Xeon® 8380: Test by Intel as of 10/28/2022. 1-node, 2x
Intel® Xeon® 8380 CPU, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 256 GB
(16x16GB 3200MT/s, Dual-Rank), BIOS Version
SE5C6200.86B.0020.P23.2103261309, ucode revision=0xd000270, Rocky
Linux 8.6, Linux version 4.18.0-372.19.1.el8_6.crt1.x86_64 Intel®
Xeon® CPU Max Series HBM: Test by Intel as of 10/28/2022. 1-node,
2x Intel® Xeon® Max 9480, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 128 GB
HBM2e, BIOS EGSDCRB1.DWR.0085.D12.2207281916, ucode 0xac000040,
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3, Kernel 5.3.18, oneAPI
2022.3.0
Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series with DDR Host: Test by Intel
as of 10/28/2022. 1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® Max 9480, HT On, Turbo
On, Total Memory 1024 GB DDR5-4800 + 128 GB HBM2e, Memory Mode:
Flat, HBM2e not used, 6x Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series, BIOS
EGSDCRB1.DWR.0085.D12.2207281916, ucode 0xac000040, Agama
pvc-prq-54, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3, Kernel 5.3.18,
oneAPI 2022.3.0
Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series with HBM Host: Test by Intel
as of 10/28/2022. 1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® Max 9480, HT On, Turbo
On, Total Memory 128 GB HBM2e, 6x Intel® Data Center GPU Max
Series, BIOS EGSDCRB1.DWR.0085.D12.2207281916, ucode 0xac000040,
Agama pvc-prq-54, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3, Kernel
5.3.18, oneAPI 2022.3.0
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