Intel Xeon Gold 5520+: specs and benchmarks

VS

Aggregate performance score

Xeon Gold 5520+
2023
28 cores / 56 threads, 205 Watt
38.17

Xeon Gold 5520+ provides outstanding benchmark performance at 38.17% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon Gold 5520+ sales 14 December 2023 at a recommended price of $1,640. This is an Emerald Rapids architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 28 cores and 56 threads, and is based on 10 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is Intel Socket 4677 processor with a TDP of 205 Watt and a maximum temperature of 85 °C. It supports DDR5 memory.

Primary details

Xeon Gold 5520+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking88
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation73.04
Market segmentServer
Power efficiency17.87of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
DesignerIntel
ManufacturerIntel
Architecture codenameEmerald Rapids (2023)
Release date14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,640of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores28 (Octacosa-Core)
Threads56
Base clock speed2.2 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache80 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache52.5 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography10 nmof 3 nm (EPYC 9845)
Die size2x 763 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)85 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 5520+ 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 configuration2of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
Socket4677
Power consumption (TDP)205 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 5520+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

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

TXT+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 5520+'s memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Xeon Gold 5520+.

Integrated graphics cardN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version5.0
PCI Express lanes80of 128 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Gold 5520+. 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.

Xeon Gold 5520+ 38.17

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.

Xeon Gold 5520+ 61227

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon Gold 5520+'s performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon w7-3465X 102.57
Xeon Gold 5520+ 100
Xeon W-3375 96.52

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Gold 5520+ is Xeon Platinum 8380, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon Gold 5520+:

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon Gold 5520+, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon Gold 5520+ in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1 configurations using Xeon Gold 5520+ in our database.

UHD Graphics UHD Graphics
100% (1/1)

All comparisons with Xeon Gold 5520+

Community ratings

Here is the rating given to the reviewed processor by our users. Let others know your opinion by rating it yourself.


No user ratings yet.

Rate Xeon Gold 5520 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Comments

Here you can give us your opinion about processor Xeon Gold 5520+, agree or disagree with our ratings, or report bugs or inaccuracies on the site.