This is still an early sample
The Intel Granite Rapids-SP generation processor has appeared on the Internet, which will be aimed at the server segment.
These striped CPUs (chiplets are made in the form of stripes) are distinguished by the fact that they will have a large number of cores. Even by the standards of the market as a whole, not to mention Intel, which in this aspect has been hopelessly behind AMD all the years since the release of the CPU Epyc.
CPU-Z screenshots show the parameters of an 80-core CPU. At the same time, some of the data indicates the presence of 160 cores, but the author of the screenshot says that the software does not yet accurately determine the CPU, and besides, the system had two processors — hence the confusion. It is important to say that we are talking about large cores, and they, unlike the upcoming consumer Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake cores, will support Hyper-Threading.
CPU also has 336 MB of third-level cache and 320 MB of second-level cache, that is, a total of 656 MB versus 448 MB for the current generation Emerald Rapids and 232 MB for the still current Sapphire Rapids. For comparison, Epyc Genoa has up to 480 MB of cache on the CPU, but Genoa-X already offers an incredible 1248 MB.
There are also CPU-Z test results, but we are talking about a very early engineering sample with low frequencies, so the test results are meaningless.