Xeon Platinum 8260L: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon Platinum 8260L
2019
24 cores / 48 threads, 165 Watt
2.90

Xeon Platinum 8260L provides poor benchmark performance at 2.90% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.

Summary

Intel started Xeon Platinum 8260L sales 2 April 2019 at a recommended price of $12,599. 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 Platinum 8260L processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1810
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Platinum
Power efficiency0.74of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores))
DesignerIntel
Architecture codenameCascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date2 April 2019 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$12,599of 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 cores24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads48
Base clock speed2.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.9 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier24of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache1.5 MBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache24 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache35.75 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature90 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Platinum 8260L 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 configuration8 (Multiprocessor)
SocketFCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)165 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Platinum 8260L. 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-
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 Platinum 8260L's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2933
Maximum memory size4.5 TBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels6of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth140.8 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 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Platinum 8260L. 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 Platinum 8260L
2.90

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 Platinum 8260L Samples: 2 5103

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon Platinum 8260L's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon E3-1230 100.69
Xeon E3-1235 100.34
Xeon Platinum 8260L 100
Xeon X5677 99.31

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Xeon Platinum 8260L is Xeon E3-1235, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon Platinum 8260L:

Opteron 6376 109.31
Opteron 6328 104.14
Opteron 6272 102.76
Xeon Platinum 8260L 100
Opteron 3380 85.52

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