Intel Xeon E-2400 “Raptor Lake” Entry-Level Workstation CPU Specs Revealed, P-Core Only Flavors

Intel has finally revealed the official specifications of its Xeon E-2400 Xeon entry-level workstation CPUs which are part of the Raptor Lake family.

Intel hasn't made any official announcements yet but it looks like the chips were listed last month on the company's support page which lists a total of eight SKUs along with their core count, TDPs, and frequencies across all cores. The Xeon E-2400 CPU lineup will essentially replace the E-2300 series and will feature the same Raptor Cove P-Cores that were used on the Raptor Lake-S CPUs. The difference is that there seems to be no hybrid design and all chips are based on P-Cores only.

While Intel's own documentation doesn't reveal much about the lineup except for their on-paper specifications, based on what we know, the Xeon E-2400 lineup is based around the Catlow platform, which replaces the older Tatlow Xeon E-2300 series. Some features include:

Increase performance with New processor core architecture. Processors branded as Intel Xeon E-2400:

Small Businesses

Server-grade 24/7 reliability with essential performance to support business-critical services and customer data needs.

Cloud Services

Cost-effective servers with essential performance to support entry-level bare metal services.

The new platform, first of all, features support on Intel's LGA 1700 socket, which is a much wider adopted standard compared to the previous LGA 1200. With a new platform comes enhanced features such as improvements within memory support (DDR5), storage compatibility (PCIe Gen5), and a gen-to-gen increase in performance.

The flagship offering under the Intel Xeon E-2400 "Raptor Lake" workstation lineup is the Xeon E-2488, which comes with an 8-core & 16 thread configuration, similar to what we saw with the E-2300 as well, hence a core count bump doesn't exist here. The processor, like its predecessor has a 95W TDP as well, however, the noticeable difference here is the slightly bumped-up max turbo frequency, which is now at 5.6 GHz. Looking at the other SKUs, they exhibit similar properties to the E-2300 lineup so it looks like most of the core configurations remained the same but there's also the obvious Raptor Cove P-Core architectural upgrade.

It is still interesting to see the Intel Xeon E-2400 entry-level workstation CPUs surfacing out of nowhere. The last release we saw was back in 2021, which was based on the Rocket Lake architecture. Intel hasn't revealed an official release date yet, but we expect it to be revealed soon.

News Source: @InstLatX64