Xeon Gold 6248 vs Pentium E5500
Aggregate performance score
Xeon Gold 6248 outperforms Pentium E5500 by a whopping 2651% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3037 | 443 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.05 | 2.26 |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | Server |
| Series | no data | Intel Xeon Gold |
| Power efficiency | 0.40 | 4.76 |
| Designer | Intel | Intel |
| Manufacturer | Intel | no data |
| Architecture codename | Wolfdale (2008−2010) | Cascade Lake (2019−2020) |
| Release date | 18 April 2010 (15 years ago) | 2 April 2019 (6 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $109 | $3,072 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Xeon Gold 6248 has 4420% better value for money than Pentium E5500.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248 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 | 2 (Dual-core) | 20 (Icosa-Core) |
| Threads | 2 | 40 |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | DMI 3.0 |
| Bus rate | no data | 4 × 8 GT/s |
| Multiplier | no data | 25 |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | 1.25 MB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB (shared) | 20 MB |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 27.5 MB |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 82 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 74 °C | 86 °C |
| Number of transistors | 228 million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| VID voltage range | 0.85V-1.3625V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248 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 | 1 | 4 (Multiprocessor) |
| Socket | LGA775 | FCLGA3647 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | 150 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| AVX | - | + |
| vPro | no data | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | + |
| Speed Shift | no data | + |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | 2.0 |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | + |
| TSX | - | + |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | no data | - |
| Deep Learning Boost | - | + |
Security technologies
Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | + |
| EDB | + | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248 are enumerated here.
| VT-d | - | + |
| VT-x | + | + |
| EPT | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 | DDR4-2933 |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 1 TB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 6 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 140.8 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | - | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium E5500 and Xeon Gold 6248.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 48 |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.61 | 16.78 |
| Recency | 18 April 2010 | 2 April 2019 |
| Physical cores | 2 | 20 |
| Threads | 2 | 40 |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | 150 Watt |
Pentium E5500 has 130.8% lower power consumption.
Xeon Gold 6248, on the other hand, has a 2650.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, 900% more physical cores and 1900% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.
The Intel Xeon Gold 6248 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium E5500 in performance tests.
Note that Pentium E5500 is a desktop processor while Xeon Gold 6248 is a server/workstation one.
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