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TLDR from Anandtech is that while this is a good improvement over previous gen, it still falls behind AMD (Epyc) and ARM (Altra) counterparts. What's somewhat a

TLDR from Anandtech is that while this is a good improvement over previous gen, it still falls behind AMD (Epyc) and ARM (Altra) counterparts. What's somewhat alarming is that on a per-core comparison (28-core 205W designs), the performance increase can be a wash. Doesn't bode well for Intel as both their competitors are due for refreshes that will re-widen the gap. Key question will be how quickly Intel will shift to the next architecture, Sapphire Rapids. Will this release be like the consumer/desktop Rocket Lake? E.g. just a placeholder to essentially volume test the 10nm fabrication for datacenter. Probably at least a year out at this point since Ice Lake SP was supposed to be originally released in 2H2020.

gsnedders 6y ago
> Key question will be how quickly Intel will shift to the next architecture, Sapphire Rapids. Will this release be like the consumer/desktop Rocket Lake? E.g. just a placeholder to essentially volume test the 10nm fabrication for datacenter. Probably at least a year out at this point since Ice Lake SP was supposed to be originally released in 2H2020. Alder Lake is meant to be a consumer part contemporary with Sapphire Rapids, which is server only. They're likely based on the same (performance) core, with Adler Lake additionally having low-power cores. Last I heard the expectation was still that these new parts would enter the market at the end of this year.