Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8260Y. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Platinum Intel Xeon Platinum
• Generation
  2 2
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Platinum 8200/9200 Intel Xeon Platinum 8200/9200

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  24 24
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 3.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  48 48
• Turbo (24 Cores)
  2.40 GHz 2.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8260Y and Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 6
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 48

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M and Intel Xeon Platinum 8260Y to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  165 W 165 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M and Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  35.75 MB 35.75 MB
• Architecture
  Cascade Lake Cascade Lake
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 LGA 3647
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q2/2019