Intel 4th Gen Xeon

Intel has launched its 4th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) as of Jan'23, 4th Gen Xeon is purpose-built to improve data center performance, efficiency, security, and capabilities for AI, cloud computing, networks, edge computing, and supercomputers. The new Xeon Models are available in six categories, including the Max 9400, Platinum 8000, Gold 6000, Gold 5000, Silver 4000, and Bronze 3000, as well as the Max Series.

섬네일|369x369픽셀 Each series has a range of different models that can be drilled down to their target use case:

• Performance general purpose
• Mainline general purpose
• Liquid cooling general purpose
• Single socket general purpose (“Q” Series)
• Long-life Use (IoT) general purpose (“T” Series)
• IMDB/Analytics/virtualization optimized (“H” Series)
• 5G/Networking optimized (“N” Series)
• Cloud-optimized IaaS (“P”, “V” and “M” Series)
• Storage and hyperconverged infrastructure optimized (“S” series)
• HPC optimized (i.e., the Intel Xeon CPU Max series)

4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors list [1]

SKU	CORES	BASE	ALL CORE TURBO (GHz)	Max TURBO (GHz)	CACHE (MB)	TDP (Watts)	Maximum Scalability	DDR5 Memory Speed	UPI Links Enabled	Default DSA Devices	Default IAA Devices	Default QAT Devices	Default DLB Devices	Intel SGX Enclave Capacity (Per Processor)	Long Life Use	Intel® On Demand Capable
2S PERFORMANCE GENERAL PURPOSE
8480+	56	2.0	3.0	3.8	105	350	2S	4800	4	1	1	1	1	512GB		✓
8470	52	2.0	3.0	3.8	105	350	2S	4800	4	1	0	0	0	512GB	✓	✓
8468	48	2.1	3.1	3.8	105	350	2S	4800	4	1	0	0	0	512GB		✓
8460Y+	40	2.0	2.8	3.7	105	300	2S	4800	4	1	1	1	1	128GB		✓
8462Y+	32	2.8	3.6	4.1	60	300	2S	4800	3	1	1	1	1	128GB	✓	✓
6448Y	32	2.1	3.0	4.1	60	225	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
6442Y	24	2.6	3.3	4.0	60	225	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
6444Y	16	3.6	4.0	4.1	45	270	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
6426Y	16	2.5	3.3	4.1	37.5	185	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
6434	8	3.7	4.1	4.1	22.5	195	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
5415+	8	2.9	3.6	4.1	22.5	150	2S	4400	3	1	1	1	1	128GB	✓	✓
2S MAINLINE GENERAL PURPOSE
8452Y	36	2.0	2.8	3.2	67.5	300	2S	4800	4	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
6438Y+	32	2.0	2.8	4.0	60	205	2S	4800	3	1	1	1	1	128GB		✓
6430	32	2.1	2.6	3.4	60	270	2S	4400	3	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
5420+	28	2.0	2.7	4.1	52.5	205	2S	4400	3	1	1	1	1	128GB	✓	✓
5418Y	24	2.0	2.8	3.8	45	185	2S	4400	3	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
4416+	20	2.0	2.9	3.9	37.5	165	2S	4000	2	1	1	1	1	64GB	✓	✓
4410Y	12	2.0	2.8	3.9	30	150	2S	4000	2	1	0	0	0	64GB	✓	✓
LIQUID COOLED GENERAL PURPOSE(-Q)
8470Q	52	2.1	3.2	3.8	105	350	2S	4800	4	1	0	0	0	512GB		✓
6458Q	32	3.1	4.0	4.0	60	350	2S	4800	3	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
SINGLE SOCKET GENERAL PURPOSE(-U)
6414U	32	2.0	2.6	3.4	60	350	1S	4800	0	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
5412U	24	2.1	2.9	3.9	45	185	1S	4400	0	1	0	0	0	128GB		✓
3408U	8	1.8	1.9	1.9	22.5	125	1S	4000	0	1	0	0	0	64GB	✓
LONG - LIFE USE (IOT) GENERAL PURPOSE (-T)
4410T	10	2.7	3.4	4.0	26.25	150	2S	4000	2	1	0	0	0	64GB	✓	✓
IMDB/ANALYTICS/VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED (-H) – SOCKET SCALABLE
8490H	60	1.9	2.9	3.5	112.5	350	8S	4800	4	4	4	4	4	512GB
8468H	48	2.1	3.0	3.8	105	330	8S	4800	4	4	4	4	4	512GB
8460H	40	2.2	3.1	3.8	105	330	8S	4800	4	4	4	0	0	512GB
8454H	32	2.1	2.7	3.4	82.5	270	8S	4800	4	4	4	4	4	512GB
8450H	28	2.0	2.6	3.5	75	250	8S	4800	4	4	4	0	0	512GB
8444H	16	2.9	3.2	4.0	45	270	8S	4800	4	4	4	0	0	512GB
6448H	32	2.4	3.2	4.1	60	250	4S	4800	3	1	1	2	2	512GB
6418H	24	2.1	2.9	4.0	60	185	4S	4800	3	1	1	0	0	512GB	✓
6416H	18	2.2	2.9	4.2	45	165	4S	4800	3	1	1	0	0	512GB
6434H	8	3.7	4.1	4.1	22.5	195	4S	4800	3	1	1	0	0	512GB
5G / NETWORKING OPTIMIZED (-N)
8470N	52	1.7	2.7	3.6	97.5	300	2S	4800	4	4	0	4	4	128GB	✓	✓
8471N	52	1.8	2.8	3.6	97.5	300	1S	4800	0	4	0	4	4	128GB	✓	✓
6438N	32	2.0	2.7	3.6	60	205	2S	4800	3	1	0	2	2	128GB	✓	✓
6428N	32	1.8	2.5	3.8	60	185	2S	4000	3	1	0	2	2	128GB	✓	✓
6421N	32	1.8	2.6	3.6	60	185	1S	4400	0	1	0	0	0	128GB	✓	✓
5418N	24	1.8	2.6	3.8	45	165	2S	4000	3	1	0	2	2	128GB	✓	✓
5411N	24	1.9	2.8	3.9	45	165	1S	4400	0	1	0	2	2	128GB	✓	✓
CLOUD OPTIMIZED IaaS (-P) / SaaS(-V) / Media(-M)
8468V	48	2.4	2.9	3.8	97.5	330	2S	4800	3	1	1	1	1	128GB		✓
8458P	44	2.7	3.2	3.8	82.5	350	2S	4800	3	1	1	1	1	512GB		✓
8461V	48	2.2	2.8	3.7	97.5	300	1S	4800	0	1	1	1	1	128GB		✓
6438M	32	2.2	2.8	3.9	60	205	2S	4800	3	1	1	0	0	128GB		✓
STORAGE & HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) OPTIMIZED (-S)
6454S	32	2.2	2.8	3.4	60	270	2S	4800	4	4	0	4	4	128GB		✓
5416S	16	2.0	2.8	4.0	30	150	2S	4400	3	1	0	2	2	128GB		✓
HPC OPTMIZED (Intel® Xeon® CPU MAX Series)
9480	56	1.9	2.6	3.5	112.5	350	2S	4800	4	4	0	0	0	128GB
9470	52	2	2.7	3.5	105	350	2S	4800	4	4	0	0	0	512GB
9468	48	2.1	2.6	3.5	105	350	2S	4800	4	4	0	0	0	128GB
9460	40	2.2	2.7	3.5	97.5	350	2S	4800	3	4	0	0	0	128GB
9462	32	2.7	3.1	3.5	75	350	2S	4800	3	4	0	0	0	128GB
Y Supports Intel Speed Select Technology – Performance Profile 2.0 (Intel SST-PP)

built-in accelerators

Integrated accelerators support today’s most demanding workloads spanning AI, security, HPC, networking, analytics and storage

Name	Purpose	Notes
Intel® AI Engine	Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX)	Intel AMX is Intel’s next-generation advancement for deep-learning training and inference on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Ideal for workloads like natural language processing, recommendation systems and image recognition, this new feature extends the built-in AI acceleration capabilities of previous Intel Xeon Scalable processors while also offering significant performance gains
	Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512	A continuing feature of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel AVX-512 is a general- purpose performance-enhancing accelerator with a wide range of uses. When it comes to AI, Intel AVX-512 can accelerate machine learning workloads for training and inferencing. 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel AVX-512 are also designed to speed up data preprocessin
Intel® Security Engines	Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)	Intel SGX is the most researched, updated and deployed confidential computing technology in data centers on the market today. This continuing feature of Intel Xeon Scalable processors provides the foundation for confidential computing solutions across edge and multi-cloud infrastructures. Intel SGX offers a hardware-based security solution that is designed to prohibit access to protected data in use via unique application-isolation technology. By helping protect selected code and data from inspection or modification, Intel SGX allows developers to run sensitive data operations inside enclaves to help increase application security and protect data confidentiality
	Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX)	Intel TDX is a new capability available through select cloud providers in 2023 that offers increased confidentiality at the virtual machine (VM) level, enhancing privacy and control over your data. Within an Intel TDX confidential VM, the guest OS and VM applications are isolated from access by the cloud host, hypervisor and other VMs on the platform.
	Intel® Crypto Acceleration	Intel Crypto Acceleration uses single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) techniques to process more encryption operations in every clock cycle. This can help increase the total throughput of applications that require strong data encryption, with minimal impact on performance and user experience
Intel® HPC Engines	Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512)	With ultrawide 512-bit vector operations capabilities, Intel AVX-512 is especially suited to handle the most demanding computational tasks commonly encountered in HPC applications. It’s used by organizations across educational, financial, enterprise, engineering and medical industries. By enabling users to run complex workloads on existing hardware, Intel AVX-512 accelerates performance for tasks like financial analytics, 3D modeling and scientific simulations
	Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX)	In addition to accelerating AI workloads, Intel AMX is also designed to deliver performance gains across popular HPC workloads. This new built-in accelerator transforms large matrix math calculations into a single operation and uses a two- dimensional register file to store large chunks of data
	Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA	Intel DSA is a new feature designed to optimize and speed up streaming data movement and transformation operations common in networking, data- processing-intensive applications and high-performance storage. Intel DSA accelerates HPC workloads by offloading the most common data movement tasks that cause CPU overhead in data-center-scale deployments
Intel® Network Engines	Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)	Intel QAT boosts performance to meet the demands of today’s networking workloads, helping systems serve more clients. It can deliver significant workload acceleration for cryptography, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption and decryption. Intel QAT using RSA4K can increase client density on an open-source NGINX web server compared to software running on CPU cores without acceleration
	Intel® vRAN Boost	Intel vRAN Boost is a new feature that eliminates the need for an external accelerator card by integrating vRAN acceleration directly into the Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processor. By reducing vRAN component requirements, it reduces overall vRAN solution complexity and provides power savings for customers
	Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB	Intel DLB is a new feature that enables the efficient distribution of network processing across multiple CPU cores. It also restores the order of networking data packets processed simultaneously on CPU cores. With Intel DLB, customers can gain higher performance on packet forwarding compared to software queue management on cores without acceleration. Additionally, applications can achieve higher packet processing performance than the previous generation
Intel® Analytics Engines	Intel® In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (Intel® IAA)	Intel IAA is designed to accelerate database and analytics performance. By increasing query throughput and decreasing the memory footprint for in-memory databases and advanced analytics workloads, this new feature can provide faster data movement and improve CPU core utilization by reducing dependency on CPU cores. Intel IAA is ideal for in-memory databases, open-source databases and data stores like RocksDB, Redis, Cassandra and MySQL. Customers using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H with Intel IAA will gain up to 3x higher RocksDB performance compared to the previous generation
	Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA)	Intel DSA is a new feature designed to optimize and speed up streaming data movement and transformation operations common in data-intensive applications, driving better business outcomes. By offloading tasks like data movement, data copying and error checking, Intel DSA enables the CPU to focus on business- critical database functions or other analytics workloads. This reduces query latencies and increases throughput, delivering faster data processing
	Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)	Intel QAT can be used to accelerate database backups. When QAT was enabled as a new feature in SQL Server 2022, it delivered more efficient and higher performance applications. With Intel QAT, SQL Server customers achieve up to 2.3x faster backup operations and a 6% reduction in backup storage capacity
Intel® Storage Engines	Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA)	Intel DSA works on the CPU — between DRAM, caches and processor cores — and extends across I/Os to attached memory and storage, plus networked resources. As Intel’s next-generation direct memory access (DMA) engine, it speeds transfers between volatile and persistent memory and supports virtualized memory and I/Os. Customers using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H with Intel DSA will gain up to 1.6x higher IOPS and up to 37% latency reduction for large packet sequential read compared to the previous generation
	Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)	Intel QAT increases performance of storage workloads and applications by accelerating cryptography and data compression/decompression. Customers using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H with Intel QAT will gain up to 95% fewer cores and 2x higher level 1 compression throughput compared to the previous generation
	Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD)	Intel VMD is a legacy feature that enables direct control and management of NVMe SSDs from the PCIe bus without the need for additional hardware adapters. It allows for a smoother and lower-cost transition to fast NVMe storage while limiting the downtime of critical infrastructure. With benefits like bootable RAID, robust surprise hot-plug and blink status LED, Intel VMD increases serviceability and enables you to deploy next-generation storage with confidence