Xeon Silver 4510 vs Gold 6240Y

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated252
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data100.00
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Goldno data
Power efficiencyno data13.56
Architecture codenameCascade Lake (2019−2020)Sapphire Rapids (2023−2024)
Release date2 April 2019 (5 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,726$563

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510 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 cores18 (Octadeca-Core)12 (Dodeca-Core)
Threads3624
Base clock speed2.6 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.9 GHz4.1 GHz
Bus typeDMI 3.0no data
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/sno data
Multiplier26no data
L1 cache1.125 MB80 KB (per core)
L2 cache18 MB2 MB (per core)
L3 cache24.75 MB30 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nmIntel 7 nm
Maximum core temperature74 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data84 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510 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 configuration4 (Multiprocessor)2
SocketFCLGA3647FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt150 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512Intel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX++
vPro++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technology2.02.0
Hyper-Threading Technology++
TSX++
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
Deep Learning Boost++

Security technologies

Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2933DDR5 @ 4400 MT/s (1 DPC &2DPC)
Maximum memory size1 TB4 TB
Max memory channels68
Maximum memory bandwidth140.8 GB/sno data
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510.

PCIe version3.05
PCI Express lanes4880

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2019 14 December 2023
Physical cores 18 12
Threads 36 24

Xeon Gold 6240Y has 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

Xeon Silver 4510, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between Xeon Gold 6240Y and Xeon Silver 4510. We've got no test results to judge.


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