The Emerald Rapids Xeon Platinum 8592+ is part of a complete refresh of Intel's Xeon product stack, aimed at regaining market share from AMD. The chip offers up to 128 cores and 256 threads per dual-socket server, and Intel claims it provides gen-on-gen gains of 42% in AI inference, 21% more performance in general compute workloads, and 36% higher performance-per-watt. Despite these improvements, the chip still trails AMD's Genoa in terms of overall core counts. However, Intel claims its chips offer a superior blend of performance and power efficiency, particularly in AI workloads.
Key takeaways:
- The fifth-gen Emerald Rapids Xeon Platinum 8592+ significantly improves Intel's competitive positioning against the competing AMD EPYC Genoa processors.
- Intel has added four more cores to the flagship over the company's prior-gen chips, providing up to 128 cores and 256 threads per dual-socket server.
- Emerald Rapids still trails in terms of overall core counts — AMD's Genoa tops out at 96 cores with the EPYC 9654, a 32-core advantage.
- Intel's processors now support up to DDR5-5600 in 1DPC (one DIMM per channel) mode and DDR5-4800 for 2DC, an improvement over the prior-gen's DDR5-4800.