Intel Xeon 696X

The Intel Xeon 696X is a high-core-count server processor built on the Granite Rapids microarchitecture and manufactured on a 3 nm process node. It features 64 performance cores (no efficiency cores) and 128 threads, with a base clock of 2.4 GHz and a boost clock of 4.8 GHz. The processor includes 336 MB of L3 cache and supports DDR5 memory at 6400 MT/s and MRDIMM at 8000 MT/s across eight memory channels, with ECC support. It provides 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and has a TDP of 350 W, with a maximum turbo power of 420 W. The Xeon 696X uses the FCLGA4710 socket and supports instruction sets including Intel SSE4.1/4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, and Intel AMX. It was launched with an MSRP of $6159.