Intel Xeon W-1290 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6238L. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-1200 Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200
• Family
  Intel Xeon W Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  10 2
• 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
  3.2 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  10 22
• CPU Threads
  20 44
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  5.2 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (22 Cores)
  - 2.6 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.

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  24 -
• Generation
  9.5 -
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics P630 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1200 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB -
• Release date
  Q4/2017 -
• Shader
  192 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6238L and Intel Xeon W-1290. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• PCIe lanes
  16 48
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon W-1290 and Intel Xeon Gold 6238L Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  80 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon W-1290 and Intel Xeon Gold 6238L, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake W Cascade Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 30.25 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2019
• Socket
  LGA 1200 LGA 3647
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d