| Attribute |
Intel Xeon Gold 5122 × | 
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Xeon Gold | Intel Xeon E3 |
| Model | Intel Xeon Gold 5122 | Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | No | No |
| h264 | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | No | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | No | No |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | No | No |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 | DDR3-1600 |
| PCIe lanes | 48 | 16 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | + | + |
| Memory channels | 6 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2017 | 2014 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 22 |
| Socket | LGA 3647 | LGA 1150 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 17 | 8 |
| Architecture | Skylake SP | Haswell Refresh |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 105 | 80 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 10,896 | 9,833 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 906 | 888 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,891 | 3,371 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 162 | 148 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 827 | 742 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | - | 353 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | - | 1,683 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.91 | 1.72 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 9.09 | 7.93 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 4,167 | 3,554 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15,538 | 13,480 |