Yuuki_ans on X (formerly Twitter) published a leaked slide comprised of most (if not all) of Intel's upcoming Xeon 6 series CPUs, featuring Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest SKUs. The slide reveals that Intel is massively increasing core counts with its two next-generation server CPU platforms but at the cost of absurd power consumption. The highest-core count Granite Rapids part — the Xeon 6 6980P, boasts 128 Cores and a colossal 500W TDP.
Intel is equipping five Xeon 6 CPUs with a sky-high 500W TDP, including the top four most powerful Granite Rapids SKUs and even the flagship Sierra Forest SKU comprised entirely of efficiency cores. Intel's new 500W ceiling is almost twice as high as its outgoing Xeon Scalable parts which peak at 350W to 385W.
