Emerald Rapids


Emerald Rapids is the codename for Intel's fifth generation Xeon Scalable server processors based on the Intel 7 node. Emerald Rapids CPUs are designed for data centers; the roughly contemporary Raptor Lake is intended for desktop and mobile usage. Nevine Nassif is a chief engineer for this generation.

Features

CPU

Emerald Rapids-SP (Scalable Performance)

CPUs in italic are actually Sapphire Rapids processors, and they still have 1.875 MB of L3 cache per core.
Suffixes to denote:
  • +: Includes 1 of each of the four accelerators: DSA, IAA, QAT, DLB
  • H: Database and analytics workloads, supports 4S and/or 8S configurations and includes all of the accelerators
  • M: Media transcode workloads
  • N: Network/5G/Edge workloads, some are uniprocessor
  • P: Cloud and infrastructure as a service workloads
  • Q: Liquid cooling
  • S: Storage & Hyper-converged infrastructure workloads
  • T: Long-life use/High thermal case
  • U: Uniprocessor
  • V: Optimized for cloud and software as a service workloads, some are uniprocessor
  • Y: Speed Select Technology-Performance Profile enabled
  • Y+: Speed Select Technology-Performance Profile enabled and includes 1 of each of the accelerators.