Xeon Silver 4215R: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon Silver 4215R
2020
8 cores / 16 threads, 130 Watt
9.45

Xeon Silver 4215R provides acceptable benchmark performance at 9.45% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon Silver 4215R sales 24 February 2020 at a recommended price of $794. This is a Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 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 130 Watt. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

Primary details

Xeon Silver 4215R processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking808
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.58
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Silver
Power efficiency6.88of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameCascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date24 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$794of 17,906 (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 cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed3.2 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier32of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache512 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache8 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache11 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature79 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Silver 4215R 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)130 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4215R. 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 Silver 4215R's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2400
Maximum memory size1 TBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels6of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth115.212 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 Silver 4215R. 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 Silver 4215R 9.45

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 4215R 15004

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 4215R 1308

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 4215R 6964

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon Silver 4215R's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon D-2166NT 100.63
Xeon E-2286M 100.53
Xeon Silver 4215R 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Silver 4215R is Opteron 6278, which is slower by 8% and lower by 74 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon Silver 4215R:

Xeon Silver 4215R 100
Opteron 6278 91.53

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon Silver 4215R, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon Silver 4215R in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 6 configurations using Xeon Silver 4215R in our database.

RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
16.7% (1/6)
RTX 6000 Quadro RTX 6000
16.7% (1/6)
RTX 4000 Quadro RTX 4000
16.7% (1/6)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
16.7% (1/6)
RX 580X Radeon RX 580X
16.7% (1/6)
Quadro 4000 Quadro 4000
16.7% (1/6)

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