Like the main Intel Alder Lake processors, Sapphire Rapids will be equipped with the Golden Cove cores of the microcircuit manufacturer and the Intel 7 node, previously known as the 10-nm ENHANCED SUPERFIN process. The underfined Sapphire Rapids-SP processor has 56 cores and 112 streams. On paper it looks disappointing, as AMD EPYC 7003 (Milan) chips have up to 64 cores and 128 streams. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how Golden Cove competes from Zen 3 in the area of ​​data centers.

The 56-Nuclear Chip Intel also has 112 MB of L2 Cache and 105 MB L3 Cache. EPYC 7003 of the highest level has up to 256 MB of L3 cache. Nevertheless, Intel also prepares Sapphire Rapids with HBM2E memory to 64 GB; Meanwhile, AMD has prepared its Milan-X chips with 512 MB 3D V-Cache.

The Sapphire Rapids-SP processor from YUUKI-ANS is an engineering sample (ES), so it is not necessary to relate to clock frequencies. So far, the 56 nuclear part works with a basic clock frequency of 1.9 GHz and a clock frequency of 3.3 GHz. According to the report, the clock frequency of the same-core processor increases to 3.7 GHz.

The Sapphire Rapids-SP chip was on the Intel C741 platform (EmmitSburg) with 1 TB of DDR5 memory with CL40-39-38-76 timings. On the motherboard Socket E (LGA4677) there was a processor.

Sapphire Rapids should have come out in the second quarter of the year, but the delays pushed it into the third quarter. It will be a big problem for Intel, since the AMD EPYC 7004 (Genoa) line may appear at about the same time. Unlike Milan, Genoa will use the revolutionary 5-nm TSMC technological unit and the AMD Zen 4 nucleus 4. Genoa kernel will also increase the number of EPYC chips cores from 64 to 96, and this means that Sapphire Rapids will have to compete with a 96-nuclear Monster Genoa from 192 Threads.