Intel and AMD didn’t have much to show us at Computex, but they did have an interesting side show or two. What if you have 16 Intel Performance cores running at 7.2GHz?
Of course, Intel’s current consumer CPUs can’t have more than 8 performance cores. However, with one of Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs, you can get 16 performance.
that’s exactly right level 1 tech With the help of ASRock’s performance team, we managed to achieve it at the Computex show. Running a 16-core version of Intel’s latest Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU on an ASRock W790 motherboard, we first achieved a massive Cinebench R23 score of around 46,000, running the chip at 6.1 GHz.
Note that all 16 cores within the Xeon chip are performance cores based on the same Golden Cove specification as the large P cores in the 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop CPUs. No Efficient Core. Also, for context, a stock-clocked Intel Core i9 13900K scored around 38,000 in the same test.
They managed to make the chip run as fast as 7.2 GHz. That’s pretty impressive for a giant CPU with 16 of Intel’s largest and most powerful cores. However, the system was not stable enough to complete a benchmark run at that frequency.
Anyway, the question arises, what do you want in your performance PC? Do you want hundreds of millions of Intel’s Efficient cores, or do you want a few but enough pure Performance cores?
These overclocking results suggest that using all the big cores might be a better option for pure performance. The drawback is power consumption. His Xeon chip with 16 cores was apparently consuming 50W per core at 6.1GHz.
That’s right, it’s 800W across the CPU, far more than the Core i9 13900K, and enough of a difference to warrant a much higher performance-per-watt than regular desktop chips.
Speaking of running at crazy speeds on Computex, memory expert GSkill hosted a DDR5 overclocking contest at the show. In the end, Seby9123 was the winner, achieving his DDR5-11158 speeds with his 24GB DDR5 memory kit from G.Skill, earning him $10,000 for the effort.
This is about twice the memory frequency of regular DDR5 memory. not bad.View highlights from the event here.
