Intel's LGA 4710 socket-based reference platform, Beechnut City, is pictured and ready to help. Xeon 6 Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest CPUs.

Intel's LGA 4710 socket is huge, but on the horizon is an even bigger LGA 7529 socket for Xeon 6 CPUs, ready for Granite Rapids and the Sierra Forest.

Intel recently announced the all-new “Xeon 6” family codename for its next-generation Xeon CPU family, which is split into P-Core and E-Core lineups. While Intel has yet to unveil the specific SKUs featured under these lineups, it seems likely. YuuKi_AnS We have a few things that come with a first look at the Bechant City reference evaluation platform that centers around the LGA 4710 socket.

According to the post, it looks like Intel will use the P and E designations in the SKU naming scheme for its next-generation Xeon 6 family. The family will fall under the Xeon 6000 series with the P-Core SKUs being called the Xeon 6 6000P series and the E-Core SKUs being called the Xeon 6 6000E series. The CPU family will be known as Xeon 6E and Xeon 6P with numbers representing the generation of the family. It looks like there will be the following SKUs:

• Xeon 6 6900E/P (Platinum Series)
• Xeon 6 6700E/P (Gold Series)
• Xeon 6 6500P (Silver Series)
• Xeon 6 6300P (Bronze Series)

Now coming to the more juicy bits which is the motherboard itself. What we are looking at is an Intel Xeon 6 reference platform used for evaluation and testing purposes. It's what's being used to test the upcoming Granite Rapids P-Core and Sierra Forest E-Core silicon before launch. Intel ships these motherboards to partners and customers as kits. This particular board is labeled “Beechnut City RP PPO”. The motherboard has all the switches and controls a user could ask for.

Looking at the crowded area of ​​this motherboard, we see two large sockets surrounded by a total of 32 DDR5 DIMM slots. It can support a phenomenal amount of capacities up to 4 TB and 6400 MT/s speed based on the last information we checked.

It is a dual-socket or 2S motherboard with two sockets each featuring their VRMs and each socket having large mounting screws used to mount bulk and passive cooling solutions. are

As for the two sockets, these are the smaller of the two designed for Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs. This is the LGA 4710 variant you are looking at. We've already seen these big socket chips pop out.. It is also Larger LGA 7529 socket which is designed for XCC CPU SKUs. We know that Sierra Forest will come in MCM variant with 288 cores. And the biggest Granite Rapids chips will have three compute tiles..

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Each of these two platforms will have advantages in terms of I/O (PCIe/CXL), memory, and storage capabilities. The reference Beechnut City platform supports 8-channel memory with 88 PCIe Gen5 lanes while the Avenue City (LGA 7529) platform supports 12-channel memory with 96 PCIe Gen5 lanes. Both platforms also support MCR memory with a speed of 8000 MT/s.

The Intel Xeon 6 family will be introduced first in the form of Sierra Forest starting this quarter and Granite Rapids (2H 2024) will follow soon after.

Intel Xeon CPU families (initial):

News Source: @miktdt