Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Intel Xeon Gold 6354. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Silver Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  3 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Silver 4300 Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300
• Predecessor
  No --
• Successor
  No --

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
  2.80 GHz 3.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 18
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  16 36
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6354 and Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 6144 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  8 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Xeon Gold 6354 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  105 W 205 W
• TDP up
  No --
• TDP (PL2)
  No --
• TDP down
  No --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y and Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y, 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
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  No --
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB 39.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Ice Lake
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 LGA 4189
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q2/2021