Intel Xeon 698X Granite Rapids 2.0 GHz 336MB L3 Cache LGA 4710 350W Server Processor - OEM

The Intel Xeon 698X is an 86-core, 172-thread Granite Rapids server processor with 336MB of L3 cache, designed for data-center and workstation workloads that benefit from substantial parallel compute; it uses an LGA 4710, single-socket platform.

Recommended For

• Workstation users who run CPU-rendered 3D scenes or other heavily threaded production jobs and benefit from keeping many CPU cores busy.
• AI and data-science developers who work with large local datasets, CPU inference or matrix-heavy workloads, and can use the workstation platform’s high memory capacity and Intel AMX support.
• Engineering and research teams running parallel simulations, scientific computing, or complex data analysis on a workstation rather than splitting work across multiple CPU sockets.
• Workstation builders who need several high-bandwidth PCIe devices—such as multiple GPUs or fast storage—alongside large amounts of ECC memory in a single-socket system.

Real-World Use Scenarios

• When a workstation user renders complex 3D scenes or other CPU-rendered content, the high core count can help finish jobs sooner when the rendering software scales across many threads; GPU-rendered workloads may depend more on the graphics card.
• For engineering teams running parallel simulations or large technical analyses, the Xeon 698X is suited to jobs that can use many CPU cores; actual solve times depend on the application, model, and memory configuration.
• When developing or testing AI and machine-learning workloads on a workstation, Intel AMX can accelerate supported matrix operations on the CPU; it is a CPU-side option, not a substitute for GPUs in workloads that require substantial accelerator capacity.
• For data-science or financial and life-sciences analysis that can be parallelized, the processor is aimed at handling compute-heavy workstation jobs; performance will vary with the software and dataset.
• When media professionals run several CPU-intensive creation tasks at once, such as processing and rendering jobs, the many-core design can help keep parallel work moving; applications that rely mainly on a few fast cores may see less benefit.

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