When Intel recently unveiled its third generation Xeon scalable processor “Ice Lake-SP” illustrated some performance expectations using a 32-core Xeon Platinum CPU, which implied that it would be the company's flagship offering, but apparently it isn't.
Geekbench 5 CPU
Intel $ 0000% (Ice Lake SP?)
Topology: 2 Processors, 72 Cores, 144 Threads
Identifier: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 106 Stepping 5
Base Frequency3.60 GHz
Cache:
L1 Instruction: 32 KB x 36
L1 Data: 48 KB x 36
L2 : 1.25 MB x 36
L3: 54 MB x 1 https://t.co/ohbL49W8Is
- Leakbench (@leakbench) December 4, 2020
Someone with access to Asustek's Y4R-A1-ASUS-G1 server posted five Geek tests bench machine discovered by Leakbench on Twitter. The system is animated by two 36-core Intel Family 6 Model 106 Stepping 5 processors (acronym indicating Ice Lake-SP) accompanied by 512GB of DDR4 memory.
According to data from GeekBench, the 36-core Ice Lake-SP processor is equipped with an L2 cache of 1.25MB per core (45MB in total), a unified L3 cache of 54MB and a base frequency of 3.60GHz. If the system reports base frequency correctly, the 36-core Ice Lake-SP can actually hit really good speeds. To put the number in context, AMD's 32-core AMD EPYC 7002 series can run at 2.90GHz base and up to 3.40GHz of boost frequency. However, it is possible that your system is reporting CPU clock speed incorrectly.
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As for the actual Geekbench 5 score, the system achieved 946 single-core points and a multi-core score of 35,812, which isn't particularly high. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the CPUs run at a relatively low frequency, a common situation with engineering samples. Ice Lake-SP during Q1 2021.
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