AIDA 64 already supports Intel Alder Lake-X

AIDA 64 has recently launched a new version 6.60.5944, which shows that it will provide support for Intel Alder Lake-X, which means that after a long wait, Intel will return to the HEDT market.

It is reported that Intel’s new HEDT products will be divided into Sapphire Rapids-X and Alder Lake-X. Sapphire Rapids-X is the successor of Cascade Lake-X and will focus on the high-end workstation market. The positioning between the two may be similar to Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X in 2017. It is reported that Alder Lake-X may still be the LGA 1700 platform, which is also based on 8 Golden Cove architecture performance cores (Performance Core) and 8 Gracemont architecture-based energy efficiency cores (Efficient Core).

However, some people have questioned this, thinking that the recently launched Core i9-12900KS has squeezed out the performance of the current 8 8 architecture, and it is difficult for the same configuration to have room for improvement. So another argument is that Alder Lake-X will be a reduced version of Sapphire Rapids-X, both of which are part of the Fishhawk platform, but will remove support for ECC memory and reduce the number of PCIe lanes. Then Alder Lake-X will not have the energy efficiency cores of the Gracemont architecture, only the performance cores of the Golden Cove architecture, but the number of performance cores is greater than 8 and supports the AVX-512 instruction set at the same time, targeting the extreme enthusiast games and mainstream workstation markets.

The recent supply of the Ryzen Threadripper series has been tight, and it has been argued that the lack of competition has caused AMD to de-prioritize its supply, concentrating the available chips on EPYC processors. If Intel re-enters the HEDT market, it may stimulate AMD to increase the supply of Ryzen Threadripper series processors.