Xeon Gold 5218R: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon Gold 5218R
2020
20 cores / 40 threads, 125 Watt
16.17

Xeon Gold 5218R provides good benchmark performance at 16.17% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

Intel started Xeon Gold 5218R sales 24 February 2020 at a recommended price of $1,273. This is a Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 20 cores and 40 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 125 Watt. It supports DDR4-2667 memory.

Primary details

Xeon Gold 5218R processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking436
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation21.86
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Gold
Power efficiency11.80of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameCascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date24 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,273of 17,906 (tray) (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores20 (Icosa-Core)
Threads40
Base clock speed2.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier21of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache1.25 MBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache20 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache27.5 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature87 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 5218R compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.

SocketFCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 5218R. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-
Deep Learning Boost+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 5218R's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2667
Maximum memory size1 TBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels6of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth128.001 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes48of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Gold 5218R. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Xeon Gold 5218R 16.17

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Xeon Gold 5218R 24742

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Xeon Gold 5218R 1359

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Xeon Gold 5218R 9133

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon Gold 5218R's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon Gold 5218R 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Gold 5218R is Xeon Platinum 8176, which is slower by 6% and lower by 45 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon Gold 5218R, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon Gold 5218R in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 9 configurations using Xeon Gold 5218R in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
11.1% (1/9)
RTX A5000 RTX A5000
11.1% (1/9)
RTX A6000 Quadro RTX A6000
11.1% (1/9)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
11.1% (1/9)
RX 6600M Radeon RX 6600M
11.1% (1/9)
GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 1070
11.1% (1/9)
Tesla T4 Tesla T4
11.1% (1/9)
GTX 770 GeForce GTX 770
11.1% (1/9)

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