Xeon Gold 6238T vs E5-2696 v4

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking439not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesIntel Xeon E5Intel Xeon Gold
Power efficiency9.87no data
Architecture codenameBroadwell (2015−2019)Cascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date20 June 2016 (8 years ago)2 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,742

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T 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 cores22 (Docosa-Core)22 (Docosa-Core)
Threads4444
Base clock speed2.2 GHz1.9 GHz
Boost clock speed3.6 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeQPIDMI 3.0
Bus rate2 × 9.6 GT/s4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier2219
L1 cacheno data1.375 MB
L2 cache5.5 MB22 MB
L3 cache55 MB30.25 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size456.12 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Number of transistors7200 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T 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 configuration2 (Multiprocessor)4 (Multiprocessor)
Socketno dataFCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt125 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX++
vPro++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX++
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4-2933
Maximum memory size1,536 GB1 TB
Max memory channelsno data6
Maximum memory bandwidthno data140.8 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2696 v4 and Xeon Gold 6238T.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4048

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2016 2 April 2019
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 125 Watt

Xeon Gold 6238T has an age advantage of 2 years, and 20% lower power consumption.

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