- Intel Granite Rapids-WS listing spotted online shows 86 cores with 172 threads
- Benchmark entry hints at 4.8GHz turbo boost speeds on limited cores
- Granite Rapids-WS could be a serious challenger for AMD Threadripper
Intel is on a roll at the moment, with major investments from the US government and Nvidia, as well as potential future interest from other Magnificent 7 members – and now a new benchmark listing may have revealed its most ambitious workstation chip yet.
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The entry shows clock speeds reaching 4.8GHz, although this is likely a turbo figure for a small number of cores rather than a fully dialed base.
Taking on AMD’s Threadripper
Key details, including design thermal power and full platform specifications, have not been provided, so the submission should be treated as an early leak rather than confirmation of final specifications.
TechPowerUp indicates that Granite Rapids-WS is derived from Intel’s XCC server compute dies, which combine two compute tiles for the 86 cores as well as two I/O tiles for PCIe and memory connectivity.
Achieving higher core counts would likely require a larger Intel UCC chip and a larger package.
Memory support for this workstation SKU is also not yet known.
The server-grade XCC family supports DDR5-6400, with higher speeds possible thanks to MR-DIMMs, and a workstation variant could adopt an eight-channel layout to balance capacity against board complexity.
Cooling requirements also remain a mystery, as no base clock or thermal envelope has been listed.
The test system, shown in the OpenBenchmarking.org entry (which you can see above), included 512GB of memory, a 1TB Seagate ZP1000GM3004 SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.
The system also reported using GCC 11.5.0, GNOME Shell 40.10, and an X Server display driver.
Intel has recently reduced its focus on high-end desktops, leaving professionals to choose between older workstation components or AMD’s offerings.
If the details are accurate, Granite Rapids-WS could provide Intel with a quick return to the HEDT and workstation segment, where AMD’s Threadripper has dominated.
For OEMs and creators, actual adoption of Granite Rapids-WS will depend on the ultimate performance, efficiency, scalability of the software, and how convincingly the chip challenges AMD’s Threadripper dominance.
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