Xeon Gold 6140: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Xeon Gold 6140 provides good benchmark performance at 15.97% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

Intel started Xeon Gold 6140 sales 25 April 2017 at a recommended price of $2,445. This is a Skylake (server) architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 18 cores and 36 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 140 Watt. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.

Primary details

Xeon Gold 6140 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking447
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.13
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Gold
Power efficiency10.40of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameSkylake (server) (2017−2019)
Release date25 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,445of 17,906 (tray) (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 cores18 (Octadeca-Core)
Threads36
Base clock speed2.3 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.7 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier23of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache1.125 MBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache18 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache24.75 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature91 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 6140 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 configuration4 (Multiprocessor)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)140 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6140. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-

Security technologies

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

TXT+
EDB+

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 Gold 6140's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2666
Maximum memory size768 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels6of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth128.001 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 lanes48of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Gold 6140. 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 Gold 6140 15.97

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 Gold 6140 24445

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 Gold 6140 1076

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 Gold 6140 8257

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon Gold 6140's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Gold 6140 is Xeon Platinum 8176, which is slower by 5% and lower by 37 positions in our ranking.

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