Intel Clearwater Forest E-Core Only Xeon CPUs To Offer Up To 288 Cores: Updated Crestmont Cores With Higher IPC, More Cache
Intel's 2nd Gen E-Core Only Xeon CPUs, codenamed Clearwater Forest, are expected to feature up to 288 cores with updated architecture.
The latest information comes from Bionic_Squash who keeps the tab on the latest developments on Intel's upcoming chips. According to the newest post, it looks like we are getting an early taste of what to expect from Intel's 2nd Gen Xeon family based on the E-Core CPU architecture. The first E-Core-only family, codenamed Sierra Forest, is yet to launch with a planned release for mid-2024 so based on how early this information is, things could change as we get closer to the 2025 launch of Clearwater Forest.
Core count comparison:
SRF-SP < CWF-SP
SRF-AP = CWF-AP
— Bionic_Squash (@SquashBionic) December 1, 2023
With that said, it looks like Intel's Clearwater Forest will utilize an updated version of the Crestmont E-Core architecture. This would be the fourth Gen E-Core architecture with Gracemonth being the first which made its debut on Alder Lake and was later reused in Raptor Lake CPUs, Crestmonth which is going to debut in the upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs, and Sierra Glen which will debut with Sierra Forest chips.
As for Sierra Glen (for Sierra Forest), the E-Core architecture feels a lot similar to Crestmont which itself is very similar to Gracemont with some changes here and there as explained in this article. In Clearwater Forest, we will see an optimized version of Crestmont cores from the looks of it. These are said to be slightly modified versions of Crestmont so not particularly the Skymont E-Core CPU architecture which will be utilized by Lunar Lake and Panther Lake by 2025.
The cores in SRF are slightly modified version of Crestmont
— Bionic_Squash (@SquashBionic) December 1, 2023
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