Xeon Silver 4314 vs E7-8867 v3

Place in the ranking	218	324
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Server
Power efficiency	13.33	12.78
Architecture codename	Haswell-EX (2015)	Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date	1 June 2015 (9 years ago)	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314 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	16 (Hexadeca-Core)	16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads	32	32
Base clock speed	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	3.4 GHz
Bus rate	9.6 GT/s	no data
L1 cache	64K (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	256K (per core)	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	45 MB (shared)	24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	22 nm	10 nm
Die size	160 mm²	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	79 °C	86 °C
Number of transistors	1,400 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314 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	8	2
Socket	FCLGA2011	FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	135 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® AVX2	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+
vPro	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	no data	+
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	+
TSX	+	+
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
PAE	46 Bit	no data
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	+
EDB	+	+
Secure Key	+	no data
SGX	no data	Yes with Intel® SPS
OS Guard	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-1333/1600/1866, DDR3-1066/1333/1600	DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size	1.5 TB	6 TB
Max memory channels	4	8
Maximum memory bandwidth	85 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E7-8867 v3 and Xeon Silver 4314.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	32	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 E7-8867 v3 24.12
+27.5%

Xeon Silver 4314 18.92

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 E7-8867 v3 36908
+27.5%

Xeon Silver 4314 28954