It looks like Intel is going to respond to AMD launching their Ryzen CPUs shortly. That response will include a new series of Xeon Gold line CPUs. This announcement comes right after a huge leak on AMD Ryzen CPUs and even according to Intel the upcoming AMD Ryzen R7-1800X CPU has a very good cost/performance ratio in creative and productivity applications.


As a response to that Intel will come up with a new line of processors targeting so called pro-consumers, like for instance MacPro desktop. The Xeon Gold series will be based on 14nm Skylake-EP silicon and will feature up to 18 cores and 36 threads. According to Intel the first model will go by the name Xeon Gold 6150. Apart from that the Xeon Gold 6150 should feature 24.75 MB of L3 cache, a base clock speed of 2.70 GHz with the boost clock set to 3.70 GHz. Apart from that the L2 Cache per core is supposed to be 1MB. That would be four times what you get with the latest Xeon E5 series chips from which the Xeon Gold series processors derive.

According to Ark Intel, the new Xeon Gold 6150 looks like an updated version of the Xeon E5-2699 v3. At the moment the main difference between this two models is the clock speed and the increased L2 Cache. Since Intel hasn't officially launched the CPU we expect to see more details quite soon. Furthermore the company has not revealed details on pricing and availability.






Source: Techpowerup