Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140

Xeon Platinum 8170M vs Xeon Gold 6140 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Gold 6140 performs better than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores compared to the Xeon Gold 6140 that has 18 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6140. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6140 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more L2 cache than the Xeon Gold 6140. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.