Xeon Gold 6212U vs Platinum 8260

Place in performance ranking	274	331
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.12	14.40
Market segment	Server	Server
Series	Intel Xeon Platinum	Intel Xeon Gold
Architecture codename	Cascade Lake-SP (2019)	Cascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date	2 April 2019 (5 years ago)	2 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,702	$2,000

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Xeon Gold 6212U has 181% better value for money than Xeon Platinum 8260.

Detailed specifications

Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U 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 cores	24 (Tetracosa-Core)	24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads	48	48
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus support	no data	4 × 8 GT/s
L1 cache	1.5 MB	1.5 MB
L2 cache	24 MB	24 MB
L3 cache	35.75 MB (shared)	35.75 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	90 °C
Number of transistors	8,000 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U 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 configuration	8 (Multiprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	3647	Socket P
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	165 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+
vPro	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
TSX	+	+

Security technologies

Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	+
VT-x	+	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2933
Maximum memory size	1 TiB	1 TiB
Max memory channels	6	6
Maximum memory bandwidth	140.8 GB/s	140.8 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Platinum 8260 and Xeon Gold 6212U.

PCI Express lanes

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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 Platinum 8260 19.62
+10.5%

Xeon Gold 6212U 17.76

Platinum 8260 outperforms Gold 6212U by 10% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Xeon Platinum 8260 30347
+10.5%

Xeon Gold 6212U 27470

Platinum 8260 outperforms Gold 6212U by 10% in Passmark.