Intel Launches Xeon-W for Workstations

[leadeater]

22 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Then what the hell are the X299 Skylake-X processors for? lol.

 

20 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

They're for Done12.

 

 

 

Duh.

Well I mean Intel releases workstation Xeons for 2066 socket.... so Skylake-X? Xeon-W? What??

 

Skylake-X certainly is not mainstream, marketed as workstation and productivity processors then Intel releases "Workstation Xeons". Um?

[Drak3]

Just now, leadeater said:

 

Well I mean Intel releases workstation Xeon's for 2066 socket.... so Skylake-X? Xeon-W? What??

Validation and ECC vs higher clockspeed. The only talking point of Xeon-W vs SLX.

 

And I'm confident that of the choices, Done12 would chose the latter, not the former. We can tag him and get his input though.

[Dylanc1500]

24 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Then what the hell are the X299 Skylake-X processors for? lol.

Isn't that what we all have been asking? I mean come on? Lol

 

Oh yeah! to see who can get the biggest overclock and the highest power bill.

 

really though it's for enthusiats vs professional needs and features. I can't remember for certain but I believe (don't quote me) raid key isn't required with the workstation skus and chipset.

[leadeater]

Just now, Drak3 said:

Validation and ECC vs higher clockspeed. The only talking point of Xeon-W vs SLX.

 

And I'm confident that of the choices, Done12 would chose the latter, not the former. We can tag him and get his input though.

Then what's wrong with a single socket LGA3647 Xeon? None of this make any logical sense at all.

[Drak3]

Just now, leadeater said:

Then what's wrong with a single socket LGA3647 Xeon? None of this make any logical sense at all.

I can't put that Xeon in an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon. Technology isn't fun if we can't misappropriate it.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

I can't put that Xeon in an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon. Technology isn't fun if we can't misappropriate it.

You can't put a Xeon-W in that either 

 

Edit:

Not questioning Skylake-X I'm questioning the existence of both and not just one.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

You can't put a Xeon-W in that either 

I didn't say it'd be usable. It'll fit in there.

 

And no one has actually tried it yet.

[leadeater]

17 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

I didn't say it'd be usable. It'll fit in there.

 

And no one has actually tried it yet.

See edit.

 

Pretty much all this tells me is Intel is charging too much for Xeons and have majorly screwed up their product stack and have no idea what to do about it or how to fix it.

 

They have got Skylake-X competing with Xeon-W and Xeon-W also competing with Skylake-SP, Xeon-W is limited to a single socket but with 18 cores dual socket for a lot of things isn't required.

 

Sounds like Intel will be competing with themselves more than they will with AMD EYPC lol.

[Drak3]

Just now, leadeater said:

See edit.

[Taf the Ghost]

2 hours ago, leadeater said:

See edit.

 

Pretty much all this tells me is Intel is charging too much for Xeons and have majorly screwed up their product stack and have no idea what to do about it or how to fix it.

 

They have got Skylake-X competing with Xeon-W and Xeon-W also competing with Skylake-SP, Xeon-W is limited to a single socket but with 18 cores dual socket for a lot of things isn't required.

 

Sounds like Intel will be competing with themselves more than they will with AMD EYPC lol.

Intel has collected a lot of stupid tactics because they shoved AMD out of multiple markets (illegally, but it'll be another decade before they have to pay), but they've all started to collide right as AMD has a good set of products again. I expect more oddities like this to crop up over the next 2 years as Intel adjusts its approaches.

[Jito463]

On 8/30/2017 at 7:09 PM, leadeater said:

Sounds like Intel will be competing with themselves more than they will with AMD EYPC lol.

 

[TheCherryKing]

Ever since Intel has released any Skylake-based platform they have dropped support for three types of compatibility. The following compatibilty between Intel processors have been broken ever since the Skylake microarchitecture:

 

1. Xeon E3 processors can no longer be used in motherboards designed for mainstream Intel Core Processors and vice versa.

2. Xeon E5 processors can no longer be used in motherboards designed for high-end Intel Core i7 Processors and vice versa.

3. A single scalable Xeon processor(formerly Xeon E5) cannot be used in a motherboard designed for a non-scalable processors and vice versa due to a different socket and chipset.