Just days before the official announcement of AMD EPYC Milan server processors on Zen 3, two chips were spotted in the SiSoftware Sandra database Intel Xeon Platinum in the upcoming Ice Lake-SP family. Both new items are based on the 10nm process technology and are marked Xeon Platinum 8352S and Xeon Platinum 8352Y.

The noted processors have the same technical characteristics, but are intended for different uses. The model with the “Y” suffix is ​​designed for systems with a dual-processor assembly, the Xeon Platinum 8352S model, in turn, can be used in servers based on four processors.

The Xeon Platinum 8352S and Xeon Platinum 8352Y have 32 physical and 64 virtual cores running at a base frequency of 2,2 GHz. According to the synthetic test, in Boost mode, the chips can automatically overclock up to 3,4 GHz. Both have on board 48 MB of L3 cache and 40 MB of L2 cache. According to the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark, the TDP level of each processor is 205W.

The upcoming AMD EPYC Milan chips will compete with the third generation of Intel Xeon Scalable server processors. Older models of the latter will be able to offer up to 64 physical and 128 virtual cores. Intel models, in turn, will receive up to 40 cores and up to 80 virtual threads.

Intel Ice Lake-SP won’t be the last 10nm chips. The company is already developing the Sapphire Rapids series, the first server processors based on 10nm Enhanced SuperFin technology (Ice Lake-SP does not use SuperFin). According to Intel, Ice Lake models will provide higher bandwidth than their predecessors thanks to support for 8-channel DDR4-3200 memory and PCIe 4.0 interface.

Last November, Intel shared several promotional images in which it claimed the 32-core Ice Lake-SP processor was up to 1,3x faster than the 64-core AMD EPYC 7742 in life sciences and FSI calculations.

Collected by resource Wccftech the data confirms that the 32-core Ice Lake-SP is indeed faster than the 32-core AMD EPYC, but not faster than the 64-core model.

Intel has not yet announced when it will unveil its Ice Lake-SP series of server processors. It can be assumed that this will happen shortly after AMD officially unveils its EPYC Milan series.