Xeon Platinum 8163 vs E5-1620 v3

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1334not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency2.97no data
Architecture codenameHaswell-EP (2014−2015)Skylake (server) (2017−2018)
Release date8 September 2014 (10 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads848
Base clock speed3.5 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Bus rate0 GT/sno data
Multiplierno data25
L1 cache64K (per core)1.5 MB
L2 cache256K (per core)24 MB
L3 cache10 MB (shared)33 MB
Chip lithography22 nm14 nm
Die size356 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature66 °Cno data
Number of transistors2,600 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 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 configuration18 (Multiprocessor)
SocketFCLGA2011Socket P
Power consumption (TDP)140 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX2no data
AES-NI++
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access-no data
Demand Based Switching+no data
PAE46 Bitno data

Security technologies

Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection+-
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-1333, DDR4-1600, DDR4-1866, DDR4-2133DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size768 GB768 GB
Max memory channels46
Maximum memory bandwidth68 GB/s128.001 GB/s
ECC memory support++

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-1620 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4048

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 4 24
Threads 8 48
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm

Xeon Platinum 8163 has 500% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 57.1% more advanced lithography process.

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