Intel is currently preparing a serious rival to AMD's Threadripper 9000WX series: Granite Rapids-WS. The company has been mainly out of competition with AMD in the server market, with Granite Rapids restoring core parity between the two only last year. Granite Rapids-WS now looks to gain even more ground with potentially class-leading specs in the workstation space. Seasoned leaker momomo_us has seemingly found out every SKU that will be part of this lineup, along with a few details that can help us speculate.
According to the post and its reply, Granite Rapids-WS will reportedly have at least 11 models in total, with the Xeon 698X being the flagship, clocked at 2.0 GHz (base), and carrying 336 MB of combined cache. On the other hand, the Xeon 634 will be the lowest-end offering, with only a 48 MB cache pool and a base clock of 2.7 GHz. We didn't get specific core counts, but it's reasonable to expect Intel's next-gen "extreme" Xeon chips to top out at 128 cores, since the current-gen 6980P also rocks the same config, which the 698X is likely an offshoot of.
