Intel Launches Cascade Lake-X And Xeon W-2200 Processors With New Details And Features Revealed

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Last week Intel announced it was drastically cutting the price of its high-end desktop 'Cascade Lake-X' processors and today it has officially launched both them and its Xeon W-2200 range. I spoke to Intel's Client Compute Group Specialist, Jeff Kilford ahead of today's launch and there are a few extra details about the new processors we haven't yet heard so I've detailed those and the rest of the information below on Intel's Answer to AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd Gen Threadripper.

 

 

 

 

To start with are the details you may not have known. Unconfirmed till today was that the new CPUs will continue to use STIM - Intel's thermal interface solder. This was probably expected, but that's been confirmed. The CPUs launching today also sport two hardware and three software/microcode vulnerability mitigations that relate to recent security concerns.

 

Intel has released details of its Core X-series Cascade Lake-X CPUs

 

 

 

The new X-series CPUs are now fully supported in Intel's Performance Maximizer automatic overclocking software - something that's been limited to just K-series 9th Generation CPUs till now.

 

Intel's Xeon W-2200 series CPUs

 

The new Xeon W-2200 processors will offer core counts up to 18 and a peak boost frequency of 4.8GHz for the top three CPUs using Turbo Boost Max 3.0 as well as support for 1TB RAM. Both ranges offer more PCI-E 3.0 Express lanes too, at 48 compared to 44 for previous generations, although this is still lower than AMD's 64 PCI-E lanes on its X399 platform.

Intel's Core S-series processors

 

Intel also revealed the latest pricing movements to its Core S-series CPUs, which exclude onboard graphics. It has also stated it will be committing these processors to its long term road map.

Intel's Core X-series is due to hit the shelves next month and I'll be reviewing them here on Forbes. Follow me here on Forbes.

 

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