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Intel Xeon W-3175X: specs and benchmarks
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1830$
Games supported
100%
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Year of release
2018
Performance
29.49
Summary
Intel started Xeon W-3175X sales 8 October 2018 at a recommended price of $2,999. This is a Skylake-W architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 28 cores and 56 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3800 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 255 Watt. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.
It provides good benchmark performance at
29.49%
of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Xeon W-3175X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 124 | |
| Value for money | 15.44 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon W | |
| Architecture codename | Skylake-W (2018) | |
| Release date | 8 October 2018 (4 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,999 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $1830 (0.6x MSRP) | of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
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 cores | 28 (Octacosa-Core) | |
| Threads | 56 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.1 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.8 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| Bus support | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 38.5 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum core temperature | 85 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon W-3175X 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 | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FCLGA3647 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 255 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon W-3175X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| vPro | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Speed Shift | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | - |
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 W-3175X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2666 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum memory size | 512 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 6 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 128.001 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 48 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon W-3175X. 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.
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%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 37%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 37%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon W-3175X performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon W-3175X, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon W-3175X in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 44 configurations based on Xeon W-3175X in our database.
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