Why do most CPU reviewers ingore the existance of Xeon-W CPUs

Most Reviewers seem to not know that intel has been releasing HEDT chips after x299, even though they never missed a generation (C621A, w790)
While they are aware of all threadripper releases.

Note: in the zen3/icelake generation, both intel and AMD shipped only HEDT+ (Threadriper Pro/ Xeon-w 3XXX)

Sources: (reviewers do not acknowledge the existence of intel and specifically LTT and GN case explicitly state intel HEDT does not exist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zue30tcu0mY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9NIZShfZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs-ryXHOtBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zue30tcu0mY

Price

HEDT is now workstation, which is much more expensive, different socket, different power usage etc.

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Threadripper is in the process of suffering the same fate.

When AMD choose to make Zen3 threadripper “pro” only, it was the beginning of the end. Even though zen 4 had some “non-pro” options, it was still really expensive, and I’d expect Zen 5 to be the same, if not worse.

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cause they’re horribly inefficient compared to AMD offerings and largely irrelevant to the market…

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Threadripper has overshadowed them with a lot of hype the past few years and intel hasn’t been spending money marketing/seeding reviewers with these CPUs.

The sad part is that there is a growing niche of applications that intel w beats threadripper in, especially when it comes to the memory subsystem and the *new instruction set that intel now has.

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This

And this.

Threadripper 1000/2000 series were priced reasonably for “HEDT” but the current line up certainly aren’t.

HEDT used to be slightly above consumer grade in terms of price and features. These processors aren’t really HEDT and are beyond the budget of most home power users, unlike HEDT of old.

HEDT as we knew it is dead. High end consumer platforms now fill that niche somewhat, but are missing features.

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This may be true for TR and TR Pro, but the Xeon W line seemed fairly reasonable to me, which you’d think would make it popular starting at $360 for 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 4 memory channels (the low end core count isn’t inspiring though):

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That’s actually not as bad as I thought, what’s the platform cost though?

Still, IIRC you’re giving up QuickSync which imho is a major reason to go intel and only 6 cores is a bit… weak in 2025.

I think the cheapest motherboard was around 700… It does seem kind of silly to spend more on the motherboard than the CPU but thats how it is even for alot of consumer boards these days. DDR5 RDIMMs aren’t really as expensive as people make them out to be, the low density ones can be had for ~60 a stick; meaning you could have a full Xeon W system with CPU+MB+RAM for less than the cost of the cheapest TR CPU alone.

This is true, the only accelerator on it was DSA if you don’t count the new instruction set as an accelerator (which apparently Intel did).

Oh for sure that doesn’t surprise me - because Threadripper pricing is a joke these days. I mean sure, if you need it - you need it; but in terms of margin, AMD are making hay while they can.

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