Xeon Silver 4509Y: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Xeon Silver 4509Y provides acceptable benchmark performance at 11.69% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
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Summary
Intel started Xeon Silver 4509Y sales 14 December 2023 at a recommended price of $563. This is a Sapphire Rapids architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on Intel 7 manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4100 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA4677 processor with a TDP of 125 Watt and a maximum temperature of 84 °C. It supports DDR5 @ 4400 MT/s (1 DPC &2DPC) memory.
Primary details
Xeon Silver 4509Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 743 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 46.93 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Power efficiency | 8.97 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
| Architecture codename | Sapphire Rapids (2023−2024) | |
| Release date | 14 December 2023 (1 year ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $563 | of 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 cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 16 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.6 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.1 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 80 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 22.5 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | Intel 7 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 84 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon Silver 4509Y 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 configuration | 2 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FCLGA4677 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 125 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4509Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| vPro | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Speed Shift | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| Deep Learning Boost | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | |
| EDB | + | |
| SGX | Yes with Intel® SPS | |
| OS Guard | + |
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 Silver 4509Y's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 @ 4400 MT/s (1 DPC &2DPC) | |
| Maximum memory size | 4 TB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Max memory channels | 8 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Xeon Silver 4509Y.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 5 | |
| PCI Express lanes | 80 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon Silver 4509Y. 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.
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.
Send your test results of Xeon Silver 4509Y.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon Silver 4509Y is Xeon Platinum 8256, which is slower by 11% and lower by 88 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon Silver 4509Y, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon Silver 4509Y in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2 configurations using Xeon Silver 4509Y in our database.
