Xeon Gold 6230N: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Xeon Gold 6230N sales 2 April 2019 at a recommended price of $2,046. This is a Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 20 cores and 40 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 125 Watt. It supports DDR4-2933 memory.
Primary details
Xeon Gold 6230N processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
Place in the ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Market segment | Server | |
Series | Intel Xeon Gold | |
Architecture codename | Cascade Lake (2019−2020) | |
Release date | 2 April 2019 (5 years ago) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $2,046 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
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 cores | 20 (Icosa-Core) | |
Threads | 40 | |
Base clock speed | 2.3 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
Bus type | DMI 3.0 | |
Bus rate | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
Multiplier | 23 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
L1 cache | 1.25 MB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
L2 cache | 20 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
L3 cache | 27.5 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
Maximum core temperature | 78 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
64 bit support | + | |
Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon Gold 6230N 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.
Number of CPUs in a configuration | 4 (Multiprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
Socket | FCLGA3647 | |
Power consumption (TDP) | 125 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6230N. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 | |
AES-NI | + | |
AVX | + | |
vPro | + | |
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
Speed Shift | + | |
Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
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 6230N's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR4-2933 | |
Maximum memory size | 1 TB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
Max memory channels | 6 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
Maximum memory bandwidth | 140.8 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
PCI Express lanes | 48 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Gold 6230N. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
We have no data on Xeon Gold 6230N benchmark results.
Send your test results of Xeon Gold 6230N.
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.