Cascade Lake is an
Intel
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for a
14 nm server, workstation and
enthusiast processor
microarchitecture
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, launched in April 2019.
In Intel's
Process-Architecture-Optimization model, Cascade Lake is an optimization of
Skylake Skylake or Sky Lake may refer to:
* Skylake (microarchitecture), the codename for a processor microarchitecture developed by Intel as the successor to Broadwell
* Skylake (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, now in Turkey
* Sky Lake, Florida
Sky La ...
. Intel states that this will be their first microarchitecture to support
3D XPoint
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-based memory modules. It also features
Deep Learning Boost instructions and mitigations for
Meltdown
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and
Spectre
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.
Intel officially launched new Xeon Scalable SKUs on February 24, 2020.
Variants
*Server: Cascade Lake-SP, Cascade Lake-AP
*Workstation: Cascade Lake-W
*Enthusiast: Cascade Lake-X
List of Cascade Lake processors
Cascade Lake-X (Enthusiast)
Cascade Lake-AP (Advanced Performance)
Cascade Lake-AP is branded as Xeon Platinum 9200 series and all SKUs are soldered to the motherboard. These CPUs will not work with Optane Memory.
Xeon Platinum 9200 Series
Cascade Lake-SP (Scalable)
Xeon Platinum series
Xeon Gold 6200 series
Bolded denotes new SKUs released February 24, 2020.
Xeon Gold 5200 Series
Bolded denotes new SKUs released February 24, 2020.
Xeon Silver series
Bolded denotes new SKUs released February 24, 2020.
Xeon Bronze series
Bolded denotes new SKUs released February 24, 2020.
Cascade Lake-W (Workstation)
Xeon W-2200 series
Xeon W-3200 series
References
{{IntelProcessorRoadmap
Skylake microarchitecture
Intel microarchitectures
Transactional memory
X86 microarchitectures