Intel Xeon Gold 6256 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6242R. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200 Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  2 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
  3.6 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 20
• CPU Threads
  24 40
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.5 GHz 4.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  4.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (20 Cores)
  - 3.3 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 6242R and Intel Xeon Gold 6256. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB 1024 GB
• Memory channels
  6 6
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• PCIe lanes
  48 48
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6256 and Intel Xeon Gold 6242R 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
  76 °C 76 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  205 W 205 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6256 and Intel Xeon Gold 6242R, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cascade Lake Cascade Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  33 MB 35.75 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q1/2020
• Socket
  LGA 3647 LGA 3647
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d