Intel adds Xeon W-2200 series to its 2019 HEDT lineup
The top four CPUs on the W-2200 SKU list are, effectively, Cascade Lake-X plus ECC RAM and AMT out-of-band management. [credit: Intel Corporation ]
Today, Intel's W-2200 series Xeon joins Cascade Lake-X in the 2019 HEDT lineup. The Xeon W line goes further down into low-performance territory than Cascade Lake-X does, but the top-four CPUs in the lineup effectively are Cascade Lake-X: they've got the same core and thread count, same base and turbo frequencies, same amount of cache, same number of CPU lanes, and the same advertised TDP, along with support for Deep Learning Boost, Thunderbolt 3, 2.5G Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 6.
Aside from Cascade Lake-X being unlocked for overclocking, the biggest-and so far as we can tell, only-real differentiator between Cascade Lake-X and the top four Xeon-W2200 processors is Intel vPro platform support. The vPro label means that Xeon-W2200 CPUs support up to 1TB of ECC RAM (compared to Cascade Lake-X's 256GB of non-ECC) and Intel Active Management Technology (an out-of-band management system that runs on the Intel Management Engine, not the main x86-context CPU).
Xeon W-2200 CPU specs. Note that the top four SKUs are essentially identical to Cascade Lake-X-but with ECC and AMT tacked on.The bottom four don't neatly correspond to any existing CPU models from another Intel family. [credit: Intel Corporation ]
The other differentiator between Cascade Lake X series and Xeon W-2200 is, of course, price. Like Cascade Lake-X, Xeon W-2200 cut Xeon W-2100's prices roughly in half-Xeon W-2295 costs $1,333 compared to Xeon W-2195's $2,553, for example. This still leaves you with about a 25% price increase going from a Cascade Lake-X CPU to its equivalent in the Xeon W-2200 line.
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