Xeon Platinum 8163 vs E5-2630L v3

Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2630L v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1150not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
Seriesno dataIntel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency9.42no data
Architecture codenameHaswell-EP (2014−2015)Skylake (server) (2017−2019)
Release date8 September 2014 (10 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2630L 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 cores8 (Octa-Core)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads1648
Base clock speed1.8 GHzno data
Boost clock speed2.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Bus rate8 GT/sno data
Multiplierno data25
L1 cache64K (per core)1.5 MB
L2 cache256K (per core)24 MB
L3 cache20 MB (shared)33 MB
Chip lithography22 nm14 nm
Die size356 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature60 °Cno data
Number of transistors2,600 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2630L 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 configuration28 (Multiprocessor)
SocketFCLGA2011Socket P
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2630L 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++
vPro++
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 E5-2630L v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2630L 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 E5-2630L v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-1600, DDR4-1866DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size768 GB768 GB
Max memory channels46
Maximum memory bandwidth59 GB/s128.001 GB/s
ECC memory support++

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2630L v3 and Xeon Platinum 8163.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4048

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 8 24
Threads 16 48
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm

Xeon Platinum 8163 has 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 57.1% more advanced lithography process.

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