Intel Xeon 6980P with 128 cores costs $17,800 — the most expensive x86 processor on the market

Against the backdrop of the official release of processors Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids", the company added prices for its flagship models to the database Ark. The impressive innovation is Xeon 6980Phaving 128 high-performance cores, which is worth $17,800, making it the most expensive x86 processor on the market. This significantly exceeds the cost of its main competitor from AMD — EPYC Genoa 9654, which is worth $11,805 and offers 96 cores.

Other processors in the series Granite rapids also impress with their prices. For example, Xeon 6979P с 120 cores is $15,750, Xeon 6972P с 96 cores estimated at $14,600, What's on $2,795 more than similar cores EPYC 9654. The most affordable model is this Xeon 6952P с 96 cores and the price is $11,400, which is on par with competitors from AMD.

Xeon 6980P offers base frequency 2.0 GHz, acceleration to 3.9 GHzand 500 W power consumption. However, despite the high performance, the high price may become a deterrent to the mass implementation of this processor in server solutions.