Intel Xeon 6 leak suggests huge TDPs for its massive chips

Intel announced its new Xeon processors back at Computex this year, but it didn’t exactly specify what it has to offer with them. Now as time has progressed we of course get more leaks and rumors on the new CPUs. Jaykihn over on X provides a potential look now what to expect from the Granite Rapids’ powerful processors. These also come as the more standard Intel Arrow Lake processor information has been popping up and is expected to come by the end of the year.

These processors instead are more server and enterprise options with the vast power and core count behind them they sure have a different use case. Especially with the vast amounts of memory they support but obviously coming at quite a cost. This generation of Xeons is also split into two families with this one being more standard, but there is a Sierra Forest option for only efficient cores, opposite to the Intel E series CPUs it released with only performance cores on board and going for a lot more efficiency instead.

Granite Threads instead uses both with support for hyperthreading but likely last as the newer processors have stopped support for the technology these days. With all that, let’s see what kind of specs to expect from these Xeon processors.

Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids specs

Through previous leaks, there is some more info on the other stuff too. With the boost frequencies expected to be above 3GHz across the board. They also span quite a bit of cores available but most sit with a 500W TDP and require some serious cooling for the chips, while only the Xeon 6952P drops to 400W as its base clock and possibly boost drops down lower to warrant it.

There are also expected two sockets supported by the Xeon 6 series. The LGA-4710 and LGA-7529 are usable and support a dual-socket configuration. These also supposedly support up to 350W TDP SKUs and 16-channel memory or 12-channel and 500W respectively.

That leads to the possibility of two 128 Core Granite Ridge processors or two 288 Sierra Forest ones. as the Xeon 6 series is As expected to be released later this year with Sierra first followed by Granite soon after.