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What’s New: Intel today announced the expansion of its Xeon workstation processor family with the new Intel® Xeon® W-3500 and Intel® Xeon® W-2500 desktop workstation processors. Led by the Intel® Xeon® w9-3595X 60-core processor, Intel’s most advanced workstation processors1 deliver the compute power and reliability that professional creators, researchers, engineers and software developers rely on to change the world every day.
“For nearly 20 years, the Intel architecture has been the workstation of choice for software developers, scientists, creatives and engineers – any improvement we make to the platform accelerates their ability to change the world. Today, we’re excited to roll out our latest workstation products, the Intel Xeon W-3500 and Intel Xeon W-2500 processors, to meet the demanding compute needs of professional innovators around the globe.”
Why It Matters: Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 processors expand Intel’s expert and mainstream workstation product stack to meet the growing compute demands of professional innovators. Particularly with AI and machine learning demands skyrocketing over the past several years, Intel’s latest expert and mainstream workstation desktop processors are built for AI development – while still providing the platform with expansion capabilities and rock-solid stability professionals need from their workstation systems.
What It Offers: The new Xeon W-3500 processor stack provides up to 60 Performance-cores and 120 threads of compute power – adding four to eight cores more than the equivalent W-3400 lineup and delivering up to 10% higher multithreaded performance gen-over-gen2. The Xeon W-2500 processor stack brings up to 26 Performance-cores and 52 threads – adding two more cores across the stack versus the W-2400 lineup and providing up to 11% higher multithreaded performance gen-over-gen3. As a bonus, the Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 product families deliver generational improvements while maintaining many existing price points across the stack.
Other platform features include:
- Up to 4.8 gigahertz (GHz) turbo frequency on W-3500 and W-2500 workstation processors.
- Up to 112.5 megabytes (MB) (w9-3595X) and 48.75MB (w7-2595X) of L3 cache for better performance and data management – up from 105MB and 45MB in the prior generation, respectively.
- Eight channels of DDR5 RDIMM (up to 4,800 megatransfers per second) memory support enables up to 4 terabytes (TB) of memory capacity for large datasets and memory-intensive workloads.
- Continued support for ECC memory and RAS technologies that improve the integrity of critical data and system reliability.
- Up to 112 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes on Xeon W-3500 processors and up to 64 CPU PCIe Gen 5.0 on Xeon W-2500 processors for multi-GPUs, SSDs and network cards.
- 3rd Generation Intel® Deep Learning Boost (AMX, Bfloat16) and AVX-512 support powers improved artificial intelligence training and inferencing – up to 26% faster performance in crucial data science and AI development workloads4.
- Integrated Intel® Wi-Fi 6E for the latest network connectivity.
- Ongoing overclocking support for unlocked processors – including DDR5 XMP 3.0 RDIMM memory overclocking features.
- Intel vPro® Enterprise technologies for hardware-enhanced security features, firmware version control and remote manageability, enabling easy system deployment into the enterprise environment.
When It’s Available: The Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 workstation processors will be available for order beginning Aug. 28, 2024, from industry partners including HP, Dell and Lenovo, with system availability beginning in September. The recommended customer price for the Intel® Xeon® W processor family starts at $609 (Xeon w3-2525) and scales to $5,889 (Xeon w9-3595X).
