Xeon Platinum 9282 vs Apple M3 Pro 12-Core

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Primary details

Comparing M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking416not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesApple M3Intel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency56.47no data
Architecture codenameno dataCascade Lake-AP (2019)
Release date30 October 2023 (1 year ago)2 April 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores12 (Dodeca-Core)56 (Hexapentaconta-Core)
Threads12112
Base clock speed2.748 GHz2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed4.06 GHz3.8 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data26
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data77 MB (shared)
Chip lithography3 nm14 nm
Number of transistors37000 Million8,000 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibilityno data+

Compatibility

Information on M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data8
Socketno dataIntel BGA5903
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt400 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
PowerNow-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
SIPP-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4-2933
Maximum memory sizeno data2 TiB
Max memory channelsno data12
Maximum memory bandwidthno data281.6 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardApple M3 Pro 18-Core GPUno data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 October 2023 2 April 2019
Physical cores 12 56
Threads 12 112
Chip lithography 3 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 400 Watt

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core has an age advantage of 4 years, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 1381.5% lower power consumption.

Xeon Platinum 9282, on the other hand, has 366.7% more physical cores and 833.3% more threads.

We couldn't decide between M3 Pro 12-Core and Xeon Platinum 9282. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M3 Pro 12-Core is a notebook processor while Xeon Platinum 9282 is a server/workstation one.


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