2nd Generation Xeon Scalable: Cascade Lake

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Be aware, the Platinum 92XX series will cost an arm and a leg, with a foot and kidney for good measure.

• Most of the mid-range processors have more cores for the same price

• Frequency has increased in almost all processors

• L3 has increased in most mid-range processors

• Faster DDR4 is supported

• More DRAM is supported across the stack

• Optane DRAM is supported on almost all Gold/Platinum SKUs

• New CPU configurations optimized for specific markets

• Speed Select Technology for Cloud Deployments

• New ‘Cascade Lake-AP’ Platinum 9200 family, up to 56 cores and 400W per socket

• Enhanced Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations

• New AVX-512 VNNI instructions for Emerging Workloads

If I were to be blunt, then I’d say that at the super high level, the new Cascade Lake processor family is essentially a refresh of the previous generation Skylake Xeon Scalable processors. It’s the same core microarchitecture underneath, with some memory increases or core count adjustment, and a cynic might point out that raw CPU performance per clock doesn’t change. If Intel were launching just a processor, I might agree with you, but these enterprise launches are now so more about what supports the processor than the raw performance itself. Capabilities, such as Optane, along with added security and new elements to the product portfolio, push Cascade Lake above ‘just another launch’.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14146/intel-xeon-scalable-cascade-lake-deep-dive-now-with-optane