Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors have racked up 95 new performance world records using new benchmarks from industry-standard bodies.
The world records were achieved in servers from major original equipment manufacturers, ranging from single-socket systems up to eight-socket systems.
“I’m extremely proud of the 95 world record performance benchmarks that our partners have delivered, but even more delighted to see the real-world performance that our customers are achieving on the fastest ramping Intel Xeon processor family in history,” comments Lisa Spelman, vice-president and GM of Intel Xeon products and data centre marketing.
Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver world-record performance in a variety of server platforms, ranging from general computing workloads running on single-socket systems to advanced technical computing and big data analytics workloads running on eight-socket systems.
All systems tested include mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown.
The Intel Xeon Scalable processor features a new core built from the ground up for the diverse workload needs and rapid growth of the data-centric era.
The processor family offers up to 28 cores and 56 threads per processor, a 50% increase in memory channels and 20 percent more PCIe lanes compared with the prior generation, and delivers up to 2-times flops/cycle with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) (compared with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2)) enabling large gains in many high-performance computing applications and the foundation for emerging workloads such as artificial intelligence.