Intel confirms that Sapphire Rapids will support DDR5 and PCIe 5.0

[WYP]

Intel's planning to leap past PCIe 4.0.



Read more about Sapphire Rapids and its planned PCIe 5.0 support and DDR5 compatibility.

 

[g0ggles1994]

As long as EPYC gets DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 at the same time, Intel won't have an answer for that.

 

[looz]

As long as EPYC gets DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 at the same time, Intel won't have an answer for that.

Even if EPYC is a better deal on average, there are specific workloads which favour Intel - and competent people do benchmark this before pulling the trigger on an order of this magnitude. I'd also imagine with larger orders there's plenty of wiggle room in pricing and they've got plenty of contracts with large providers already.

It's awesome to see AMD become a great alternative, but Xeons are far from irrelevant.

 

[Avet]

As long as EPYC gets DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 at the same time, Intel won't have an answer for that.

With AMD you get only CPU. With Intel you get their support team, guaranteed compatibility, and many other nice things. Intel's package is worth so much more.

 

[Kleptobot]

I'm curious to see how these high frequency buses affect motherboard cost. There was already mention of increased difficulty and cost associated with PCIe4.0 . It will only get harder as the speeds increase.