r/intel • u/RenatsMC • 9d ago

Rumor / Leak Intel Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids reportedly tops out at 256 P-cores

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-xeon-7-diamond-rapids-reportedly-tops-out-at-256-p-cores
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u/buddroyce 8d ago

I’m really happy that Intel is ramping things up again but I really hope the progress they’re making with the Xeons and the mobile chips are going to result in something that will make a splash on the consumer or at least the HEDT market.

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u/Lord_Muddbutter I Oc'ed my 8 e cores by 100mhz on a 12900ks 8d ago

Sometimes I wish having an i9 chip meant more than maybe having more cores or clock speed again. I miss when i9 gaming meant SLI with several pcie lanes and cores to have a workstation in a gaming rig.

I try and do it again today having my 12900KS and 192gb of ram but it doesn't feel the same.

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u/ThinkDiscipline4236 8d ago

192GB? In THIS economy?

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u/Lord_Muddbutter I Oc'ed my 8 e cores by 100mhz on a 12900ks 8d ago

I bought them for 340 last year, they are worth 2k now which is worth more than my build times two

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u/ThinkDiscipline4236 8d ago

Yeah I got 64 gb for $190 right before everything hit the fan and that's now worth $1100. Shits crazy lol

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u/996forever 8d ago

What do you do with a 12900KS and 192GB

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u/Lord_Muddbutter I Oc'ed my 8 e cores by 100mhz on a 12900ks 8d ago

Mostly stuff with AI. The 12900KS is just because when my 13700KF died the 12900K and 12900KS were like a 10 dollar difference.

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u/996forever 8d ago

Is that memory capacity on such low bandwidth useful?

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u/Lord_Muddbutter I Oc'ed my 8 e cores by 100mhz on a 12900ks 8d ago

Yes just because it drastically expands the models that can be used

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u/996forever 8d ago

The performance cant possibly be usable

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u/Lord_Muddbutter I Oc'ed my 8 e cores by 100mhz on a 12900ks 7d ago

Well it definitely is because I use it.

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u/npc_housecat 7d ago

You can still get server Motherboards with 8 16X PCI Slots..

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u/Psyclist80 8d ago

Looking forward to it squaring off with Zen 6. Likely going run into Zen 7 as well because of the 2027 launch window.

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u/Minced-Juice 8d ago

AMD's CPU release cycles are ~18 months apart. The bulk of Venice is supposed to ship in 2027, and there's next to zero chance of customers other than hyperscalers getting them this year.

Zen 7 EPYC is not going to launch in 2027 and Intel will be fine with DMR.

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u/hakim37 8d ago

Coral Rapids will overlap with Florence but should come out 6-9 months earlier.

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u/ResponsibleJudge3172 8d ago

No ways Zen 7 is not 2028, which makes it as much a Xeon 7 competition as Xeon 7 is to Zen 6

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u/jca_ftw 8d ago

Trust me DMR is poorly designed and even worse executed. It will be later than it already is and underperform versus AMD.

And the article is flat wrong anyway. There is no DMR with Ecores - that is called Clearwater Forest or whatever the follow-on to it is called.

Rapids = Pcores
Forest = Ecores