Intel releases a series of Xeon news, including a 17x improvement in AI processing

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Key findings

  • Intel aims to deliver 17x better AI performance with next-generation Xeon 6 chips.
  • The Xeon W-3500 and W-2500 workstation CPUs offer advanced AI features.
  • Workstation processors feature higher frequencies, memory support, and AI training speeds.



Intel is in the midst of an AI-based hardware race, and it's pulling out all the stops it can. We've seen the company discuss how it plans to achieve 100 TOPS AI performance in its next generation of CPUs, but it also wants to talk about what it plans to do with its new Xeon processors. It turns out that Intel has been working hard to ensure its Xeon 6 chips can handle AI workloads, improving its performance by 17x in four years.

Intel says Xeon 6 will deliver 17x better AI performance

An X99 motherboard with two Xeon processors and eight RAM slots


As Intel announced in a press release, the company has improved the performance of its new Xeon processors in AI tasks. Roger Chandler, vice president and general manager of Intel, had a lot of good things to say about the company's progress:

“The latest MLPerf results demonstrate the importance of continued investment and resources in improving AI performance. Over the past four years, we have raised the bar for AI performance on Intel Xeon processors based on MLPerf by up to 17x. As we approach general availability later this year, we look forward to ramping up Xeon 6 with our customers and partners.”


Intel explains in more detail in the press release what the 17x performance means. The number is based on the AI ​​processing performance of the third generation of Xeon CPUs when calculating a natural language processing model. Even when Intel compares Xeon 6 with the fifth generation chips, it still achieves an impressive 1.9x increase in AI processing.

Intel also announces the Xeon W-3500 and W-2500 workstation CPUs

A picture of the 5th generation Intel Xeon

Intel also took its time to release a press release about the Xeon W-3500 and W-2500 workstation CPUs. Intel says these chips will help people in the workplace complete more AI tasks faster.


The Xeon W-3500 has 60 performance cores and 120 threads, eight more cores than the previous W-3400 chips. The Xeon W-2500 processor stack uses 26 performance cores and 52 threads, two more cores than its predecessor, the W-2400.

Intel is launching both of these chips starting today, and we'll see systems with these chips as early as September. As for price, Intel is oddly coy about it — only claiming that the range of new Xeon W chips “starts at $609 (Xeon w3-2525) and goes up to $5,889 (Xeon w9-3595X),” which is quite a wide range for the W-3500 and W-2500.


Finally, Intel has taken the time to list everything these two processors can do:

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