Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Xeon Platinum 8260M sales 11 December 2018 at a recommended price of $7,705. This is a Cascade Lake-SP 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.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 22.12% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking203
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentServer
SeriesIntel Xeon Platinum
Architecture codenameCascade Lake-SP (2019)
Release date11 December 2018 (5 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,705of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$14619 (1.9x MSRP)of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

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 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.9 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache35.75 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature90 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors8,000 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Platinum 8260M 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 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX-512
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-
StatusLaunched

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 8260M's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2933of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Maximum memory size2 TBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels6of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth140.8 GB/sof 460.8 (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes48of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Platinum 8260M. 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. 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 Platinum 8260M 22.12

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 Platinum 8260M 33970

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Xeon Platinum 8260M performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.


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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon Platinum 8260M, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon Platinum 8260M in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 11 configurations based on Xeon Platinum 8260M in our database.

RTX 8000 Quadro RTX 8000
9.1% (1/11)
TITAN RTX TITAN RTX
9.1% (1/11)
Tesla T4 Tesla T4
9.1% (1/11)
RX Vega 7 Radeon RX Vega 7
9.1% (1/11)
GeForce MX110 GeForce MX110
9.1% (1/11)
GT 730 GeForce GT 730
9.1% (1/11)
HD Graphics 4600 HD Graphics 4600
9.1% (1/11)
GTS 360M GeForce GTS 360M
9.1% (1/11)

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