Intel Xeon W-3225: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Xeon W-3225 sales 3 June 2019 at a recommended price of $1,199. This is a Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4400 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA3647 processor with a TDP of 160 Watt. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.
General info
Xeon W-3225 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Intel Xeon W | |
| Architecture codename | Cascade Lake (2019−2020) | |
| Release date | 3 June 2019 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,199 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $3770 (3.1x MSRP) | of 17802 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
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 | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 16 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.4 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus support | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 16.5 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Maximum core temperature | 68 °C | of 110 (Core Ultra 7 165H) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon W-3225 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 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M) |
| Socket | FCLGA3647 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 160 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon W-3225. 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 Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| TSX | + | |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | + | |
| Status | Launched |
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-3225's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2666 | |
| Maximum memory size | 1 TB | 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 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| PCI Express lanes | 64 | of 128 (EPYC 9654) |
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon W-3225, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon W-3225 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4 configurations based on Xeon W-3225 in our database.
