Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 Scalable Processor Review

It's me! · July 11, 2017

Well, Intel['s pricing seems to have gone up A LOT, and they are segmenting even more by cutting out half the features, or more, on a lot of the Xeons.

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Even without Omni-Path, you can expect a lot of these Xeons to cost an arm and a leg. The 28C/56T Platinum 8176 sells for no less than $8719, and if you want the maximum per-core performance, get ready to drop $13,011 for each Platinum 8180M.
Intel went from a 22-core ceiling to 28, and Hyper-Threading doubles that difference per socket when you're looking at available threads to schedule. As with Core i9-7900X, memory support goes from DDR4-2400 to DDR4-2666. More important, though, and unlike Skylake-X, we're now working with as many as six memory channels, rather than four