Coming from Yuuki_AnS, who had already shared with us scores of a dual socket Sapphire Rapids with 48 cores, it’s the turn of a configuration with two 56-core CPUs to be tested.
Intel Sapphire Rapids 56 cores: 350W and 3.7 GHz boost?
Two months ago, the Chinese leaker Yuuki_AnS revealed the results of a dual socket 96-core Sapphire Rapids processor (and also of a Milan X CPU), which were encouraging for the future, considering the test conditions (ES, low frequency, bugs that may remain…).
Today, we now have the right to new benchmarks of a dual socket from Sapphire Rapids, but this time with 112 cores!
The processor used (8480 ?) has 56 cores with a base frequency of 800 Mhz and a boost to 3.3 GHz (or between 3.5 and 3.7 GHz depending on the instructions used) accompanied by 105 MB of L3 cache and a PL1/PL2 at 350 and 420W respectively. The configuration thus equipped with two 56-core processors and DDR5-4800 will be compared to Ice Lake, Cascade Lake, Milan and Milan X.
Thanks to the Golden Cove architecture and a higher IPC than the other architectures, the Sapphire Rapids dominates in single-core despite some unlikely results probably related to the boost frequencies.
On the multi-core side, things are more complicated, with performance almost identical to the Ice Lake configuration and being largely outdistanced by the Cascade Lake configuration… Let’s not talk about the Milan and Milan X which reach almost double the scores in CPU Z V17.
Although the results may seem disappointing, we must take all this with great care, Yuuki_Ans having shared almost identical scores for the dual socket of 96 and 112 cores, showing little improvement or even regression despite a higher number of cores.
Also, we’re dealing with ES versions, which have lower frequencies than retail and may still contain a multitude of bugs that can affect performance.
