Emerald Rapids is the codename for Intel's fifth generation Xeon Scalable server processors based on the Intel 7 node. Emerald Rapids CPUs are designed for data centers; the roughly contemporary Raptor Lake is intended for desktop and mobile usage. Nevine Nassif is a chief engineer for this generation.

Features

CPU

  • Up to 64 Raptor Cove CPU cores per package Up to 32 cores per tile, reducing the max tiles to two
  • 5 MB of L3 cache per core (up from 1.875 MB in Sapphire Rapids)
  • Speed Select Technology that supports high and low priority cores

I/O

List of Emerald Rapids processors

Emerald Rapids-SP (Scalable Performance)

CPUs in italic are actually Sapphire Rapids processors, and they still have 1.875 MB of L3 cache per core.

Suffixes to denote:

  • +: Includes 1 of each of the four accelerators: DSA, IAA, QAT, DLB
  • H: Database and analytics workloads, supports 4S (Xeon Gold) and/or 8S (Xeon Platinum) configurations and includes all of the accelerators
  • M: Media transcode workloads
  • N: Network/5G/Edge workloads (High TPT/Low Latency), some are uniprocessor
  • P: Cloud and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) workloads
  • Q: Liquid cooling
  • S: Storage & Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) workloads
  • T: Long-life use/High thermal case
  • U: Uniprocessor (some workload-specific SKUs may also be uniprocessor)
  • V: Optimized for cloud and software as a service (SaaS) workloads, some are uniprocessor
  • Y: Speed Select Technology-Performance Profile (SST-PP) enabled (some workload-specific SKUs may also support SST-PP)
  • Y+: Speed Select Technology-Performance Profile (SST-PP) enabled and includes 1 of each of the accelerators.
Model numberCores (Threads)Base clockAll core turbo boostMax turbo boostSmart CacheTDPMaximum scalabilityRegistered DDR5 w. ECC supportUPI LinksRelease MSRP (USD)
Xeon Platinum (8500)
64 (128)2.2 GHz3.0 GHz3.9 GHz320 MB385 W2S5600 MT/s4$12400
1.9 GHz2.9 GHz350 W$11600
2.0 GHz330 W4800 MT/s3$10995
60 (120)2.6 GHz300 MB270 W1S0$7568
2.9 GHz4.0 GHz350 W2S5600 MT/s4$10710
??3.0 GHz???????
52 (104)2.4 GHz3.0 GHz4.0 GHz300 MB350 W1S4800 MT/s0$6839
56 (112)2.1 GHz2S5600 MT/s4$9595
48 (96)2.3 GHz3.2 GHz$6497
32 (64)2.8 GHz3.8 GHz4.1 GHz60 MB300 W3$5945
48 (96)2.1 GHz3.0 GHz4.0 GHz260 MB330 W5200 MT/s4$4650
2.7 GHz3.2 GHz350 W5600 MT/s3$6759
2.0 GHz2.9 GHz300 W1S5200 MT/s0$3720
Xeon Gold (5500 and 6500)
32 (64)3.2 GHz4.1 GHz4.1 GHz60 MB350 W2S5200 MT/s3$6416
36 (72)2.2 GHz3.0 GHz4.0 GHz180 MB270 W4$3157
32 (64)2.5 GHz3.5 GHz4.1 GHz60 MB250 W3$3726
2.8 GHz3.5 GHz$3875
16 (32)3.6 GHz4.1 GHz45 MB270 W$3622
24 (48)2.9 GHz3.6 GHz60 MB250 W$2878
32 (64)2.2 GHz3.3 GHz4.0 GHz225 W$3141
2.1 GHz2.9 GHz4.1 GHz205 W$3875
8 (16)3.9 GHz4.2 GHz4.2 GHz22.5 MB195 W4800 MT/s$2816
32 (64)2.1 GHz2.7 GHz4.0 GHz160 MB270 W$2128
16 (32)2.8 GHz3.5 GHz3.9 GHz37.5 MB195 W5200 MT/s$1517
28 (56)2.0 GHz3.0 GHz4.0 GHz52.5 MB205 W4800 MT/s$1640
8 (16)3.2 GHz3.6 GHz4.1 GHz22.5 MB165 W$1099
28 (56)2.1 GHz3.0 GHz3.7 GHz185 W1S0$1230
Xeon Silver (4500)
24 (48)2.2 GHz2.9 GHz3.7 GHz45 MB185 W2S4400 MT/s2$1295
16 (32)2.0 GHz2.6 GHz3.4 GHz30 MB150 W$780
12 (24)2.8 GHz3.7 GHz115 W$624
2.4 GHz3.3 GHz4.1 GHz150 W$563
8 (16)2.6 GHz3.6 GHz22.5 MB125 W$563
Xeon Bronze (3500)
8 (8)2.1 GHz2.2 GHz22.5 MB125 W1S4400 MT/s0$415-$425

See also