Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Silver 4210R

Place in the ranking	802	642
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	27.47	no data
Market segment	Server	Server
Series	Intel Xeon Silver	no data
Power efficiency	9.01	10.91
Architecture codename	Cascade Lake (2019−2020)	Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date	24 February 2020 (4 years ago)	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$511	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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	10 (Deca-Core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	20	16
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	3.6 GHz
Bus type	DMI 3.0	no data
Bus rate	4 × 8 GT/s	no data
Multiplier	24	no data
L1 cache	640 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	10 MB	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	13.75 MB	12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm
Maximum core temperature	84 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	76 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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	no data	2
Socket	FCLGA3647	FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y. 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	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+
vPro	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	+
TSX	+	+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Deep Learning Boost	+	+

Security technologies

Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	+
EDB	+	+
SGX	no data	Yes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	+
VT-x	+	+
EPT	+	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-2400	DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size	1 TB	6 TB
Max memory channels	6	8
Maximum memory bandwidth	115.212 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	48	64

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 Silver 4210R 9.52

Xeon Silver 4309Y 12.11
+27.2%

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 Silver 4210R 15118

Xeon Silver 4309Y 19237
+27.2%

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 Silver 4210R 1083

Xeon Silver 4309Y 1413
+30.5%

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 Silver 4210R 6126

Xeon Silver 4309Y 7365
+20.2%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.52	12.11
Recency	24 February 2020	6 April 2021
Physical cores	10	8
Threads	20	16
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	105 Watt

Xeon Silver 4210R has 25% more physical cores and 25% more threads, and 5% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4309Y, on the other hand, has a 27.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

The Xeon Silver 4309Y is our recommended choice as it beats the Xeon Silver 4210R in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon Silver 4210R and Xeon Silver 4309Y, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.