Intel Granite Rapids-AP CPU Pictured

Intel’s new top-of-the-line Granite Rapids CPU(s) draw nearer and nearer as the days pass. We have seen various leaks regarding these CPUs, with some unveiling internal slides from Intel. However, we all look forward to Intel’s Innovation Event in September. At that event, the giant is expected to reveal some more information pertaining to its upcoming products.

Granite Rapids AP Pictured

With Granite Rapids, Intel will move towards the Birch Stream platform. Granite Rapids is expected to launch later next year and may arrive in both SP and AP flavors. GNR-AP (Granite Rapids-AP) will feature higher core counts than the base SP variant. We’ll go into a bit more detail below.

Hardware leaker YuuKi_AnS who seemingly has every processor planned to arrive has, yet again, shared another picture of Intel’s GNR-AP CPU. We are not sure about the exact model, however, this CPU is not small, which we can tell with great certainty.

This is an engineering sample of an upcoming GNR-AP CPU. As you can probably tell, it is much larger than your typical LGA 1700 socket CPU. These CPUs will be based on the Intel 3 process node, exclusive to server products. Similarly, these CPUs will feature all performance cores based on the new Redwood Cove architecture.

Granite Rapids will be one of the largest leaps in performance by Intel in over a decade. The AP variants will consist of 3 P-Core tiles, each yielding ~44 cores. That results in a 132-core count for the entire CPU, however, rumors suggest that due to yield constraints, Intel will resort to 120 cores.

Alongside that, we do see a lot of segmentation improvements by team blue. GNR-AP and GNR-SP will utilize the same P-core compute tiles, whereas Sierra Forest-SP and GNR-SP are said to share the same socket. In any case, Intel will not face a common problem called ‘SKU Spam‘ where the company develops too many tiles, leading to inefficiency.

General Specifications

Source: YuuKi_AnS