Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Xeon Platinum 8170M vs Xeon Gold 6230 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Platinum 8170M performs better than the Xeon Gold 6230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6230 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has slightly more cores than the Xeon Gold 6230. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has 26 cores compared to 20 cores found in the Xeon Gold 6230. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6230. Both the Xeon Platinum 8170M and Xeon Gold 6230 have the same clock speed. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more L2 cache than the Xeon Gold 6230. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.