Intel is prepping to refresh its workstation-grade Xeon W-series processors with its codenamed 'Sapphire Rapids Refresh' products, and as their launch looms, it isn't surprising to see benchmark results start to emerge along with the chips' specifications.
As it turns out, Intel's Xeon W5-3535X has 20 high-performance Golden Cove/Raptor Cove cores with simultaneous multi-threading clocked at 2.80 GHz (base), which is a substantial — well, a four-core — difference from the Xeon W5-3435X processor that has 16 high-performance Golden Cove/Raptor Cove cores with SMT clocked at 3.10 GHz (base). In general, this looks to be a good upgrade, but given the price of $1,589 per unit (for the Xeon W5-3435X), some may argue about the economic feasibility of the W5 platform in general.
