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Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M sales 11 December 2018 at a recommended price of $7,705. This is Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional 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.

It provides good benchmark performance at 38.54 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.

General info

Of Xeon Platinum 8260M processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

2.62

Type

Server

Series

Intel Xeon Platinum

Architecture codename

Cascade Lake

Release date

11 December 2018

Launch price (MSRP)

$7,705

Price now

$540

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Xeon Platinum 8260M's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Xeon Platinum 8260M's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

2.4 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

3.9 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

L1 cache

64K (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

1 MB (per core)

of 12 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

35.75 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Maximum core temperature

90 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

Transistor count

8,000 million

of 19200 (Ryzen 9 3800X)

64 bit support

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Platinum 8260M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

8 (Multiprocessor)

Socket

FCLGA3647

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Platinum 8260M. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® AVX-512

AES-NI

AVX

vPro

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Speed Shift

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

TSX

Turbo Boost Max 3.0

Security technologies

Xeon Platinum 8260M technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

EDB

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Platinum 8260M are enumerated here.

VT-d

VT-x

EPT

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon Platinum 8260M.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2933

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

2 TB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

140.8 GB/s

of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

ECC memory support

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Xeon Platinum 8260M's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Xeon Platinum 8260M. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

38.54

Passmark

34193

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Xeon Platinum 8260M is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.