Intel Xeon W-2500 workstation processors

A brilliant choice for video encoding, but it fails to land a knockout punch against tough Threadripper competition

JAMES MORRIS

Looking for a particular past review? Visit our index at pcpro.link/index SCORE PRICE Xeon w7-2595X, £1,681 (£2,017 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk If you read our recent workstations Labs (see issue 361, p78), you’ll know that AMD lorded over Intel thanks to its latest Pro and non-Pro Threadripper chips. Intel has finally released a new family of workstation chips – the Xeon W-3500 and W-2500 series – that it hopes will redress the balance. It’s based on Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” architecture, and we put a sample CPU through its paces to see if AMD has anything to worry about. To be precise, Intel sent us the Intel Xeon w7-2595X. This is the top of the 2500-series range, with 26 cores that all support Hyper-Threading, delivering 52 threads.…

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