Intel Xeon Silver 4310T vs Gold 6250

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Combined performance score

Xeon Gold 6250
13.62

General info

Comparing Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking477474
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money3.1721.26
Market segmentServerServer
Architecture codenameno dataIce Lake-SP (2021)
Release date1 January 2020 (4 years old)6 April 2021 (2 years old)
Current price$4951 $911
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Xeon Silver 4310T has 571% better value for money than Xeon Gold 6250.

Technical specs

Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T 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 cores8 (Octa-Core)10 (Deca-Core)
Threads1620
Base clock speed3.9 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed4.5 GHz3.4 GHz
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (per core)
L3 cache35.75 MB15 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature60 °C88 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data88 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T 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 configurationno data2
SocketFCLGA3647FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDB++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2933DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size1 TB6 TB
Max memory channels68
ECC memory support++

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes4864

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 Gold 6250 13.62
Xeon Silver 4310T 13.66
+0.3%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Xeon Gold 6250 20915
Xeon Silver 4310T 20973
+0.3%

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 13.62 13.66
Recency 1 January 2020 6 April 2021
Physical cores 8 10
Threads 16 20
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 105 Watt

We couldn't decide between Xeon Gold 6250 and Xeon Silver 4310T. The differences in performance seem too small.


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