Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126F. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  4 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 12
• CPU Threads
  16 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 3 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6126F and Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 6
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  40 48
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  150 W 135 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Skylake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  25 MB 19 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2017
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 3647
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d