Intel Xeon L5638 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y

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Intel Xeon L5638

Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon L5638 with 6 cores 2GHz and Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y with 24 cores 2.9GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon L5638 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (60MB vs 12MB)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 32nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon L5638

385

Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y +477%

2224

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon L5638

2487

Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y +757%

21322

Intel Xeon L5638

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Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y

General Parameters

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2023

Intel

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Westmere-EP

Core Architecture

Emerald Rapids

Intel Socket 1366

Socket

Intel Socket 4677

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon (Westmere-EP)

Generation

Xeon Gold (Emerald Rapids-SP)

Package

1.17 billions

Transistor Count

-

32 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

60 W

Power Consumption

250 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

83 °C

Intel

Foundry

Intel

239 mm²

Die Size

2x763 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.9 GHz

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.1 GHz

6

Total Core Count

24

12

Total Thread Count

48

133 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

15.0

Multiplier

29.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

80 KB per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

2 MB per core

12 MB shared

L3 Cache

60 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

-

AVX-512 FMA Ports

2

Memory Parameters

DDR3

Memory Types

DDR5-5200

3

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

2

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

80

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