Jan 18, 2023 · With last week's launch of Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids server processors, Intel heavily talked up the shiny new accelerators and the big performance potential of AMX, but not really showcased and only heard through the grapevine was the improved AVX-512 implementation found with these new processors.

Jan 10, 2023 · At the moment the Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H is the only SKU of the Sapphire Rapids line-up I currently have available for review at Phoronix. Intel kindly supplied two of the Xeon Platinum 8490H processors and their reference server platform for my review and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix.

Jan 10, 2023 · Intel has announced the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' CPUs today along with the Xeon CPU Max Series (Sapphire Rapids HBM) and Data Center GPU Max Series (Ponte Vecchio).

Mar 3, 2022 · In the case of Sapphire Rapids, using intel_idle.preferred_cstates=4 will disable C1 and enable C1E if preferring the increased power-savings but with higher exit latency. These patches provide the Intel Idle driver support for Sapphire Rapids.

Jan 16, 2023 · One of the most exciting features of Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors is the introduction of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). The Intel AMX ISA extensions are intended for speeding-up AI and machine learning related workloads.

With Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors that launched this week, Intel is betting heavily on the integrated accelerators for offering them an advantage over competitors for modern hyperscaler tasks and other workloads able to take advantage of the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA ...

Jan 22, 2023 · A new feature with Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" that hasn't been talked about too much is the new User Interrupts (UNITR) functionality. The Linux kernel support for it still also hasn't been merged but has shown promising results in patch form.

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Mar 30, 2023 · With my recent tests looking at the Google Cloud C3 "Sapphire Rapids" performance for those new Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable VMs available via Google Cloud, the Sapphire Rapids VM at the same VM size was delivering dramatic uplift over the still-very-common Intel Cascade Lake VMs. While no EPYC Genoa VMs are publicly available yet with …

Jan 18, 2023 · The Ice Lake performance went up by 24% with AVX-512, the EPYC 9654 2P performance went up by 20%, and the new Sapphire Rapids processor enjoyed a 49% boost to the performance thanks to AVX-512. It was a significant reduction in latency too with the Sapphire Rapids AVX-512 enabled.