Intel Xeon Gold 6138 vs Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0). Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Broadcom BCM
• Generation
  1 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 Broadcom BCM2837B0

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
  2.00 GHz 1.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  20 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  40 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 4x Cortex-A53

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 Broadcom VideoCore 5
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  24
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  5
• Technology
  40 nm
• Release date
  02/2016

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 Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Intel Xeon Gold 6138. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 LPDDR2
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  6 1
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  125 W 7 W
• TDP down
  -- 4 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and Intel Xeon Gold 6138, 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 None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  -- 0.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  28.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Skylake Cortex-A15
• Technology
  14 nm 40 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2017 02/2016