Comparison of Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8168

Attribute	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon Platinum	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	24	16
Frequency (GHz)	2.7	2.6
CPU Threads	48	32
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.7	3.6
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.8
Turbo (24 Cores) (GHz)	3	-
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	DDR4-2400
PCIe lanes	48	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	6	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2016
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 3647	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	33	40
Architecture	Skylake SP	Broadwell EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	205	145
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	29,131	22,462
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	161	150
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	4,002	2,381
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.9	1.83
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	43.99	29.34
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,142	4,240
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	75,176	59,730