Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 Processor

(33M Cache, 2.70 GHz)

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Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications

Essentials

Vertical Segment
Server
Product Collection
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Processor Number
8168
Status
Launched
Launch Date
Q3'17
Lithography
14 nm

Performance

# of Cores
24
# of Threads
48
Processor Base Frequency
2.70 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
3.70 GHz
Cache
33 MB L3 Cache
# of UPI Links
3
TDP
205 W

Supplemental Information

Embedded Options Available
No

Memory Specifications

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)
768 GB
Memory Types
DDR4-2666
Maximum Memory Speed
2666 MHz
Max # of Memory Channels
6
ECC Memory Supported ‡
Yes

Expansion Options

Scalability
S8S
PCI Express Revision
3.0
Max # of PCI Express Lanes
48

Package Specifications

Sockets Supported
FCLGA3647
TCASE
85°C
Package Size
76.0mm x 56.5mm

Advanced Technologies

Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported ‡
No
Intel® Speed Shift Technology
Yes
Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 ‡
No
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡
2.0
Intel vPro® Platform Eligibility ‡
Yes
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡
Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡
Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡
Yes
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡
Yes
Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions
Yes
Intel® 64 ‡
Yes
Instruction Set Extensions
Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
# of AVX-512 FMA Units
2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
Yes
Intel® Volume Management Device (VMD)
Yes

Security & Reliability

Intel® AES New Instructions
Yes
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology ‡
Yes
Execute Disable Bit ‡
Yes
Intel® Run Sure Technology
Yes
Mode-based Execute Control (MBE)
Yes
Reviews

Reviews

Drivers and Downloads
Where to Buy

Where to Buy


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Features and Benefits

Features and Benefits

Real-Time Analytics

Get real-time insights from your most demanding in-memory data workloads and make rapid decisions. With larger memory capacities store and analyze diverse and massive data sets in seconds or minutes.

High Uptime and Availability

Run mission-critical workloads on infrastructure designed for 99.999 percent uptime.1 Intel® Run Sure Technology provides reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features you can count on.

Exceptional Performance

Bring amazing performance to the data center with hardware-based technologies that deliver real-time responsiveness, excellent performance for demanding scale-up workloads, remarkable productivity through improved virtualization, and low latency.

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Related Technologies

Related Technologies

Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512)

With double the flops per clock cycle compared to previous Generation Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2), boost performance for your most demanding computational tasks in applications such as modelling and simulation, data analytics and machine learning, data compression, visualization, and digital content creation.

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Enhanced Intel® Run Sure Technology

New enhancements deliver advanced RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) and server uptime for your most critical workloads. Hardware-assisted capabilities diagnose and recover from previously fatal errors, and also help ensure data integrity within the memory subsystem.

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Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD)

Provide a common, robust method of hot plug and LED management for NVMe-based SSDs (Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Intel® 3D NAND SSDs).

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Intel Trusted Infrastructure

A suite of platform security technologies that address the numerous, increasing, and evolving security threats across physical and virtual infrastructures.

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Benchmarks

Benchmarks for Intel® Xeon® Platinum Processor Family


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Integrated Products

Integrated Products

Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) (Integrated/Discreet)

Intel® QAT enables hardware acceleration for cryptography and data compression, freeing the host processor to focus on other critical workloads.

Integrated Intel® Omni-Path Architecture

High speed integrated data interconnect fabric for cost-effective deployment of HPC clusters.

Integrated Intel® Ethernet Connection X722

Provides up to 4x10GbE high speed ethernet capability for high data throughput and low latency workloads, reducing total system cost, power consumption and network latency2. Ideal for software-defined storage solutions, NVM Express* over fabric solutions and virtual machine migrations.

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Technical Documents
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Product and Performance Information

This feature may not be available on all computing systems. Please check with the system vendor to determine if your system delivers this feature, or reference the system specifications (motherboard, processor, chipset, power supply, HDD, graphics controller, memory, BIOS, drivers, virtual machine monitor-VMM, platform software, and/or operating system) for feature compatibility. Functionality, performance, and other benefits of this feature may vary depending on system configuration.
1

Source: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) 2015-2016, Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability Report.

2

Network latency and throughput data were collected with select performance tool and workload compared to equivalent non-RDMA latency and throughput data with Intel® Ethernet Controller X710 on the same server platforms under the same settings and conditions. Cost and power consumption savings are based on the estimation with comparison to Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 on formerly known Grantly platform.