Xeon Gold 6212U: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Xeon Gold 6212U provides good benchmark performance at 17.09% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
Intel started Xeon Gold 6212U sales 2 April 2019 at a recommended price of $2,000. This is a Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 24 cores and 48 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3900 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 165 Watt. It supports DDR4-2933 memory.
Primary details
Xeon Gold 6212U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 437 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 11.75 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon Gold | |
| Power efficiency | 9.99 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Architecture codename | Cascade Lake (2019−2020) | |
| Release date | 2 April 2019 (6 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,000 | of 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 cores | 24 (Tetracosa-Core) | |
| Threads | 48 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.9 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | DMI 3.0 | |
| Bus rate | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
| Multiplier | 24 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 1.5 MB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 24 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 35.75 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9965) |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 7 265H) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon Gold 6212U 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FCLGA3647 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 165 Watt | of 500 Watt (EPYC 9965) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6212U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| vPro | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Speed Shift | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | - | |
| Deep Learning Boost | + |
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 6212U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2933 | |
| Maximum memory size | 1 TB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 6 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 140.8 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (EPYC 9965) |
| PCI Express lanes | 48 | of 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Gold 6212U. 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.
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.
Send your test results of Xeon Gold 6212U.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Gold 6212U is Xeon Platinum 8173M, which is faster by 2% and higher by 17 positions in our ranking.
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