Intel unveils ‘powerhouse’ processor for HPC
The Intel Xeon W-3175X processor is a 28-core workstation powerhouse that has been built for select, highly-threaded and computing-intensive applications such as architectural and industrial design and professional content creation, explains Intel.
The Intel Xeon W-3175X processor has the most cores and threads, CPU PCIe lanes and memory capacity of any Intel desktop processor for compute-intensive tasks such as film editing and 3D rendering.
Intel Mesh architecture delivers low latency and high data bandwidth between CPU cores, cache, memory and I/O while increasing the number of cores per processor for highly-threaded workloads.
Another feature is the Intel Extreme Memory Profile, which simplifies the overclocking experience by removing the guesswork of memory overclocking.
To optimise over-clocking frequencies, Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) ratio offset and memory controller trim voltage control maximises memory overclocking, says Intel.
Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 delivers frequencies up to 4.3GHz.
There are up to 68 platform PCIe lanes, 38.5Mbyte Intel Smart Cache, six-channel DDR4 memory support with up to 512Gbyte at 2666 MHz, and ECC and standard RAS support to power peripherals and high-speed tools.