On February 15, the official presentation of the Intel Xeon W-2400 and W-3400 took place, a new generation of HEDT processors which maintains the foundations of the Sapphire Rapids family for servers, including the Intel 7 architecture (10 nm SuperFin of the second generation) and the Golden Cove architecture.
We already told you all the details at the time, so if you have any questions I encourage you to review the link that I have left you in the previous paragraph, since in it you will find all the informationas well as some performance tests from Intel itself that accompanied the press kits that we used at the time to share that information with you.
The fact is that thanks to Puget Systems we have had the opportunity to see an independent, and quite complete, performance test of the new Intel Xeon HEDT based on the Golden Cove architecture. They have used very important and well-known tests, such as Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Unreal Engine, Cinebench R23.2, Blender and V-Ray.
According to those responsible for this performance test, they still have “many other tests to perform”, and they ensure that there are optimizations that Intel is working on that could end up improving performance data What are we going to see today? You can enlarge the performance graphs grouped in the attached gallery by clicking on them.
In Blender we see that the Intel Xeon W9-3495X, which has 56 cores and 112 threads, performs only slightly less than the AMD Threadripper Pro 5995WX with 64 cores and 128 threads. In the middle part of the table, the results are not entirely good for these new Xeons when compared to AMD processors. Perhaps that is why Puget Systems raised the issue of pending optimizations.
Yes, we see a clear improvement compared to the Intel Xeon of the previous generation, and we can also appreciate thanks to Cinebench R23 that the chip giant has achieved a considerable increase in the CPI, and that the Intel Xeon W9-3495X reaches 1,717 single-thread points, significantly surpassing the AMD Threadripper 5995WX, which remains at 1,475 points, although the latter beats it in multithreading by having more cores.
In general we can say that the performance data is not bad, but it can be improved, that is clear, and the same goes for consumption data. However, we have already said that Intel is working on optimizations and improvements and that in the end all the results that we have just seen could change.
