Xeon Platinum 8124 vs E5-2678 v3

Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking827not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesXeonIntel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency7.31no data
Architecture codenameHaswell (2013−2015)Skylake (server) (2017−2018)
Release date2015 (9 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124 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 cores12 (Dodeca-Core)18 (Octadeca-Core)
Threads2436
Base clock speed2.5 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data30
L1 cache384 KB1.125 MB
L2 cache3072 KB18 MB
L3 cache30 MB24.75 MB
Chip lithography22 nm14 nm
Die size356 mm2no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)84 °Cno data
Number of transistors5,560 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124 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 configuration28 (Multiprocessor)
SocketLGA2011-3Socket P
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt240 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4-2666
Maximum memory sizeno data768 GB
Max memory channelsno data6
Maximum memory bandwidthno data128.001 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2678 v3 and Xeon Platinum 8124.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4048

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 12 18
Threads 24 36
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 240 Watt

Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 100% lower power consumption.

Xeon Platinum 8124, on the other hand, has 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads, and a 57.1% more advanced lithography process.

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