Comparison of Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 and Intel Xeon Gold 5120

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 ×	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E5	Intel Xeon Gold
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4	Intel Xeon Gold 5120
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	14
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	2.2
CPU Threads	12	28
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.7	3.2
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	3.6	-
Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.6
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	DDR4-2400	DDR4-2400
PCIe lanes	40	48
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2017
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 2011-3	LGA 3647
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	20	19
Architecture	Broadwell EP	Skylake SP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	135	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	13,475	18,250
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	155	139
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,150	2,015
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	351	298
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	4,905	4,344
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.89	1.64
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	14.16	22.15
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,379	3,578
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	28,833	37,851
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	290.2	-