Intel’s New CPUs are Cringe - Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon Platinum 8468

is that a supermicro (hot garbage) 2u server?

What about the 128 core bergamo

8486 is only got 48 cores
8490H is more better to compare

Again some perfect examples why LTT fails to properly review enterprise equipment:

* First, unless you are looking for a specific use-case which needs to fit multiple GPUs or a whole lot of disks -> NEVER, EVER buy Supermicro servers. Cheaply made, upgrading BIOS & firmware is a complicated process using DOS-like tools or the UEFI shell, and all IPMI (management interface)-implementations just suck. Real companies stick to the big 3 (Dell, HPE and Lenovo) for a reason ! I'm not talking cloud providers like AWS or Azure, or platforms like Google or Meta since they build their own custom servers anyway.
* Then, taking a SKU (Platinum 8468) which again, will only perform best in certain workloads and then comparing it with the top-of-the-line EPYC CPU is just unfair. Again, this SKU is for a very specific segment, but most will stick to mid or higher range Gold SKU's.

I know this because I was asked to configure a new HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11. Our partner vendor specifically mentioned: in this setup, if we need more compute power or capacity, it will be cheaper to add another node than to buy just a single node with the highest CPU SKU, which would easily amount the same price as the whole server with a lower SKU.
So I went for a config with dual 5415+ (we need both PCIe risers for a lot of AIO cards, and DL380 is dual socket anyway), 16 physical cores in total. Since it's the 2nd lowest Gold SKU, it's also a lower TDP version (150W), and can therefore be cooled with the standard heatsink. CPUs above 150W need the high-performance heatsink, CPUs above 330W need liquid cooling..
The project will mostly be running on GPU (RTX A6000 or its datacenter equivalent) and the broadcast-specific AIO-cards (AJA, Matrox, ..).
Not to mention that if you run Windows Server you always have to license at least 16 cores per machine (even though the machine could have less, for example on both Silver 4410 SKU's). Properly licensing those 18 or more core machines will set you back a fair amount - not counting Software Assurance, Server CAL's, Terminal Server licenses etc etc..
But I think I've made my point here. Not every person is able to buy a Ferrari or other hypercar. So why bother with the stuff no one will able to buy, instead of focusing on "realistic" workloads and situations ?

ai thingy

you killed a server with thermal paste Linus 😂

So Intel has become the hardware version of pre recovery Capcom

On chip dlc

So I could spend £5000 on a 96 core Genoa chip or £7000 on a 60 core 4th gen Xeon? 🤔

Interesting that there is no mention of EPYC not supporting 2 DIMMs per channel, which Intel has done since Sapphire Rapids was released. 8 months after launch, 2DPC is still not enabled for EPYC.

But there's no anti-Intel bias here.

This dude hasn't heard anything about ESD and grounding 😂

This socket seems like the worst one i have ever seen in my life. I dont know how intel has managed to do it.

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[Sponsored] Problem with new Intel CPUs - Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon Platinum 8468 overview

But does it run Crysis?

Postgress is one of the most hated DB on the planet. Everyone with a brain use MongoDB, wihch is better. Or some people use something else which is non-SQL wichih is between the SQL postgress.

I would never trust any of my hardware in the hands of Linus. 😁

But does it run Crysis

I think it’s obvious a two socket cpu, each with less cores individually than that other one socket cpu with the same cores of both combined…. Would be better.
The two sockets have to communicate between each other and the ram they have, so of course the two intel CPUs aren’t gonna do better than the one Epyc cpu.

Can you guys do a review on sapphire rapids please?

The w9-3495X chip review if possible.

Curious on the strengths and weaknesses of that platform

Honestly, they should fire whoever came up with the locked cores. basically if they were to charge lets say 2000/core to unlock and that CPU is ALREADY 7000. IT could easily make it cost 15000 for a single CPU, that's only a one stop shop. When i buy hardware, i want a fully unlocked and capable product. that's what i am buying, if corporations adopt this then it WILL trickle into the consumer market, allowing companies to come out with locked cores on purchase. This is ATTROCIOUS and should NOT be allowed to continue EVEN if Intel has to go through harsh times or go bankrupt. if i was in any level of IT, id ask if we can black list intel for trying. This is akin to this virus's that hijack your pc and want you to pay to unlock it.. but built into the market. Or allow companies to come out with finished products that lock out features behind a pay wall. then it will also affect other markets too. THIS NEEDS TO DIE

Linus: Chucks glob of thermal paste into CPU Socket.


Also Linus: Why won't it boot?

Reminds of how some Cisco servers are 🧐

I don’t think I have heard the sponsor of the video mentioned that many times…. But now I have to get Pulseway and the AMD Epyc CPU for the server I don’t have 😢😢😢

How can CPUs be cringe? This thing just keep getting wise since lmg become a zoomie safe haven

Having had the opportunity to play with upcoming chips, AMD is gonna have a problem on their hands soon.

But can it run a minecraft server

Intel, spending all their money on management and not on R&D.

Most people could get away with just using a 5600G, some fast memory and an NVME, someone should make a small cheap ITX board with limited additions to it and just slap it in a tiny case.

What's funny though, is that Intel On-Demand feature is what me and my friends are joking about several years ago. A very simple example of this is that everybody will be (supposedly) buying Core i9s, but with locked cores and features (and supposedly cheaper price). Then as time progress, if you need to get more cores or others features, you just need to upgrade it, and Intel will unlock it for you (The AMD Phenom unlock-core era as I may recall). And turns out, this is what industrial trend will go on like...

The socket design looks really bad. Dislike the fact that heatsink will block the line of sight of the chip when the CPU is still "socketing" in.

Long story short, Intel still sucks xD

Working on some space HPC cluster, switched to AMD this year, now i know why

No one serious in AI runs software on CPU but rather dedicated Hardware. That AI advantage would have been an advantage on consumer PCs or maybe even workstation. However mainly useless in servers. Not to mention the power usage compared when using dedicated hardware.

There are a lot of data centers out there that have very low limits on the power that can be suppiled to each cabinet. If you are using such a location and need general compute those power to performance numbers make the evaluation of AMD over Intel a critical business task.

Ugh! That's not how you say "Genoa"!

Linus was so serious about paste eating that the time stamp is named "eating paste"

Plesae make video about one to one, most powerful from AMD and from Intel, that whill be interesting

Linus always breaks something

I would never touch a CPU out of a static bag, without a grounded antistatic wrist strap.

Great, who's going to compete with AMD and BE the new AMD?

Wow, a CPU that handles terabytes of RAM for the price of an A100 with just 80GB of RAM!
There's a workload somewhere that could use this...personally I'd prefer a dozen A100's...guess that's why that would cost around 12 times as much.

Take the clip off first FFS...

Linus looks like a gopnik here.

Does anyone ever feel like AMD is trying to fight a war on two fronts?

The GPU market and the CPU market maybe netter to focus on one or the other then come back.

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8471N actually seems like a decent deal costing $5171, as it only uses 300w of tdp and has 52 cores with not terrible clock speeds.

(NO SHOUTING. DO NOT CENSOR) WE KNOW LINUS, YOU ARE AN AMD WORSHIPER!! YOU ALWAYS BADMOUTH INTEL CPUS!!!

To this day I've been intel 100%. It's what I've always used, it's what I know and im comfortable with, but having to pay more for the functionality that's already built into the hardware? Oh hell no. you messed up intel

I'm just waiting for someone to hack the chips and unlock them themselves. This isn't the first time this has been tried and failed for that reason.