Xeon E-2124: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon E-2124
2018
4 cores / 4 threads, 71 Watt
4.37

Xeon E-2124 provides poor benchmark performance at 4.37% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon E-2124 sales 31 May 2018 at a recommended price of $193. This is a Coffee Lake-S architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4300 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1151 processor with a TDP of 71 Watt. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.

Primary details

Xeon E-2124 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1359
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.97
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon E
Power efficiency5.74of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameCoffee Lake-S (2017−2018)
Release date31 May 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$193of 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.3 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.3 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s
L1 cache64K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache256K (per core)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size126 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E-2124 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1151
Power consumption (TDP)71 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E-2124. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-
TSX+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
MPX+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+

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 E-2124's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2666
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth42.671 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 lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E-2124. 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 E-2124 4.37

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 E-2124 6939

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 E-2124 1451

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 E-2124 3930

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon E-2124's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon E-2124 100
Xeon X5680 98.63

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon E-2124 is Opteron 6380, which is slower by 4% and lower by 28 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon E-2124:

Opteron 6348 113.04
Xeon E-2124 100
Opteron 6380 96.34
Opteron 6276 91.53

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