Performance Index
Intel® Xeon® 6+
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| Claim | Processor Series | System Configuration | Measurement | Measurement Period |
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| [9D020] Consolidation: Refresh story from 2nd Gen Intel Xeon 6258R to Intel Xeon 6+ (6990E+) -> 28c to 288c - Up to 8.2 to 1 on OLTP Performance on MySQL* Database | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 1.7T INTEL SSDSC2KG01, 8x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as April 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | HammerDB TPROC-C on MySQL 8033 | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D21] Up to 2.4x higher MySQL performance and 1.52x higher performance/watt with Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | HammerDB TPROC-C on MySQL 8033 | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D22] Up to 1.5x higher MySQL performance with Xeon 6960E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | HammerDB TPROC-C on MySQL 8033 | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D23] Up to 2.5x higher PostgreSQL performance and 1.57x higher performance/watt with Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: PostgreSQL 18.1, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | HammerDB on PostgreSQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D24] Up to 1.46x higher PostgreSQL performance with Xeon 6960E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: PostgreSQL 18.1, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | HammerDB on PostgreSQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D27] Up to 1.79x higher Apache Cassandra performance and up to 1.31x performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+ : 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCD81PUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-110-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCD81PUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, 6.8.0-110-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Apache Cassandra v.5.0.8, Cassandra Stress v.5.0.8, GCC v.13.3.0, OpenJDK v.17.0.18, 16KB chunksize. Running on 1S. | Apache Cassandra | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9D28] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.21x higher average performance and up to 1.46x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E across database workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra(1S) perf and perf/watt. See [9D21], [9D23], [9D27] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra(1S) | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D30] 2S Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.58x higher average performance vs 1S Intel Xeon 6981E across database workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of MySQL and PostgreSQL perf MySQL HammerDB 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x130003a1, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 3.5T SAMSUNG MZWLJ3T8HBLS-00007, 4x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM PostgreSQL HammerDB6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x130003a1, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 3.5T SAMSUNG MZWLJ3T8HBLS-00007, 4x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: PostgreSQL 18.1, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | Geomean of MySQL and PostgreSQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D220] Up to 1.3x higher performance/thread and up to 1.15x higher performance/thread/watt gains with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on TPC-DS-like benchmark | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 12x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 3.5T INTEL SSDPF2KX038TZ, 8x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPC-DS Like Workload, JDK17, Spark with Gluten, Spark v.3.5.2, Gluten v.1.3.0, 1. Docker Container per NUMA, Scaling Factor 6000 | Data Analytics (TPC-DS-Like Benchmark) | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D221] Up to 1.27x higher perf/thread/watt and up to 1.10x higher perf/thread with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on MySQL database | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 3072GB (24x128GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7], 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCD81PUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | MySQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D222] Up to 1.38x higher perf/thread/watt and up to 1.26x higher performance/thread with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on PostgreSQL | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 3072GB (24x128GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7], 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCD81PUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: PostgreSQL 18.1, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | PostgreSQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9D223] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.32x higher average performance/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 across database workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of MySQL and PostgreSQL perf/thread/watt. See [9D221], [9D222] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of MySQL and PostgreSQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T020] 48% greater top bin vs top bin with Intel Xeon 6990E+ (288c) vs Intel Xeon 6780E (144c) on power efficiency workload at 100% CPU utilization | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Power Efficiency workload, OpenJDK v.17.0.1 | Power Efficiency Workload | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T21] Consolidation: Refresh story from 2nd Gen Intel Xeon 6258R to Intel Xeon 6+ (6990E+) -> 28c to 288c - Up to 8:1 average server consolidation and a nearly 70% average energy savings | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, Server-side Java, WordPress, x264, MySQL, QuantLib consolidation ratios. See [9W20], [9D020], [9G25] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, Server-side Java, WordPress, x264, MySQL, QuantLib consolidation ratios | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T22] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.55x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, Linpack, Server-side Java, Server-side Java under SLA, WordPress, NGINX(1S), MediaWiki(1S), x264, x265, SVT-AV1, SHA-512_16KB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Data Analytics, Cassandra (1S), NGFW (1S), 5G Control Plane(1S), QuantLib. See [9D28], [9G22], [9N22], [9W34], [9W35] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ Server-side Java 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 OpenSSL-SHA5126990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-107-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v. 2.0, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0 | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T23] Up to 29% improvement in performance efficiency on a Power Efficiency workload with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. prior generation 6780E when operating at 40% CPU utilization | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Power Efficiency workload, OpenJDK v.17.0.1 | Power Efficiency Workload | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T24] Up to 39% improvement in performance efficiency on MySQL HammerDB with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. prior generation 6780E when operating at 40% total load | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM | MySQL | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T25] Up to 41% improvement in performance efficiency on WordPress with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. prior generation 6780E when operating at 40% CPU utilization | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 931.5G INTEL SSDPE2KX010T8, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM | WordPress | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T26] Up to 30% better performance per watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ on Power Efficiency workload over prior gen Intel Xeon 6780E and 6980P | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x1000405, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Power Efficiency workload, OpenJDK v.17.0.1 | Power Efficiency Workload | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9T220] Intel Xeon 6990+ delivers up to 1.31x performance/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 at a typical datacenter 40% CPU utilization | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Power Efficiency workload, OpenJDK v.17.0.1 | Power Efficiency Workload | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G20] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.2x higher average performance vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, Linpack, Server-side Java, Server-side Java under SLA, WordPress, NGINX(1S), MediaWiki(1S), x264, x265, SVT-AV1, SHA-512_16KB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Data Analytics, Cassandra(1S), NGFW(1S), 5G Control Plane(1S), QuantLib. See [9D28], [9G22], [9H20], [9N22], [9W21], [9W32], [9W34], [9W35] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G21] 2S Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.5x higher average performance vs 1S Intel Xeon 6981E | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, Linpack, Server-side Java, Server-side Java under SLA, WordPress, x264, SHA512_16KB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Data Analytics, QuantLib. See [9D30], [9G24] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ Server-side Java 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x30003a1, 1x I210 Gigabit Network Connection, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 WordPress 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x130003a1, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZWLR1T9HBJR-00007, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of February 2026. Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM FFMPEG x264 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x30003a1, 1x Unknown NIC, 1x I210 Gigabit Network Connection, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x264 v.0.165.3223, AVC-1080p-medium-avx2 OpenSSL-SHA512 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo Off, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-107-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo Off, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x130003a1, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZWLR1T9HBJR-00007, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v. 2.0, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0 TPC-DS-Like (Database Analytics) 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 12x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x130003a1, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 1x 3.5T SAMSUNG MZWLJ3T8HBLS-00007, 8x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPC-DS Like Workload, JDK17, Spark with Gluten, Spark v.3.5.2, Gluten v.1.3.0, 1 Docker Container per NUMA, Scaling Factor 6000 Quantlib 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P22.2512182054, microcode 0x30003a1, 1x I210 Gigabit Network Connection, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: QuantLib v.1.42, oneAPI 2025.3, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G22] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.11x higher average performance vs Intel Xeon 6780E across general compute workloads Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.55x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E across general compute workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, and Linpack perf and perf/watt General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026 Software: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 Linpack 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: HPL: App Version: oneMKL 2026.0 | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, and Linpack | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G24] 2S Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.25x higher average performance vs 1S Intel Xeon 6981E across general compute workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, and Linpack perf General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-212HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.5, microcode 0x3000393, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 3.5T Micron_7450_MTFDKBG3T8TFR, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 STREAM Triad 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-212HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.5, microcode 0x3000393, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 3.5T Micron_7450_MTFDKBG3T8TFR, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: STREAM: App Version 5.10, Triad, oneAPI 2026.0 Linpack 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6981E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-212HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6981E, 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.5, microcode 0x3000393, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 3.5T Micron_7450_MTFDKBG3T8TFR, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: HPL: App Version: oneMKL 2026.0 | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, and Linpack | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G25] Up to 6.8x Higher Average Performance and up to 3x Higher Performance/Watt Gains Across Different Segments & Workloads with the Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. 2nd Gen Intel Xeon 6258R | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Stream Triad, Linpack, Server-side Java, Server-side Java under SLA, Power Efficiency Workload [used in perf/watt only], WordPress, x264, MySQL, PostgreSQL, QuantLib General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 384GB (12x32GB DDR4 2933MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 STREAM Triad 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 384GB (12x32GB DDR4 2933MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: STREAM: App Version 5.10, Triad, oneAPI 2026.0 , running on physical cores (6258R only). Linpack 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 384GB (12x32GB DDR4 2933MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: HPL: App Version: oneMKL 2026.0, running on physical cores (6258R only). Server-side Java 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 3.8b, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 894.3G VK000960GWJPF, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 Energy Efficiency 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 3.8b, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 745.2G INTEL SSDSC2BB80, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Power Efficiency workload, OpenJDK v.17.0.1 MySQL HammerDB 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 1.7T INTEL SSDSC2KG01, 8x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as April 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM WordPress 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 3.8b, microcode 0x5003901, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 745.2G INTEL SSDSC2BB80, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM FFMPEG x264 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 4.6, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Unknown NIC, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+, 1x 745.2G INTEL SSDSC2BB80, 1x 1.7T INTEL SSDSC2KG01, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-100-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x264 v.0.165.3223, AVC-1080p-medium-avx2 PostgreSQL 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x 1.7T INTEL SSDSC2KG01, 8x 1.5T INTEL SSDPF21Q016TB, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as April 2026. Software: PostgreSQL 18.1, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM Quantlib 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 3.8b, microcode 0x5003901, 2x Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 745.2G INTEL SSDSC2BB80, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: QuantLib v.1.42, oneAPI 2025.3, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G26] Up to 23% higher average performance with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6980P | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer/floating point throughput, Server-side Java (throughput and Throughput w/SLA), x264, MySQL, Quantlib General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P44.2604032157, microcode 0x1000432, 1x I210 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 2.9T INTEL SSDPE2KE032T8, 1x 894.3G Micron_7450_MTFDKBG960TFR, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, 6.8.0-107-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 Server-side Java and Server-side Java under SLA 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x10003d0, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 FFMPEG x264 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x1000405, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x264 v.0.165.3223, AVC-1080p-medium-avx2 MySQL HammerDB 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCMYXRUG1T92, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x1000405, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 2x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, 8x 1.7T KIOXIA KCD8XPUG1T92, 1x 3.6T Lightbits LightOS, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: TPROC-C on MySQL 8033, HammerDB 4.7, MultiVMs, 8vCPUs per VM, 16GB memory per VM Quantlib 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6980P: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6980P, 128 cores, 500W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x1000405, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: QuantLib v.1.42, oneAPI 2025.3, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G27] Up to 37% higher average performance and up to 36% higher average performance/Watt at same core count with Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Linpack General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 Linpack 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: HPL: App Version: oneMKL 2026.0 | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Linpack | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G28] Up to 2.11x higher memory bandwidth and 1.30x higher bandwidth/watt on Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: STREAM: App Version 5.10, Triad, oneAPI 2026.0 | Stream Triad | Test by Intel as of March 2026 |
| [9G29] Up to 2.29x higher LINPACK performance(est) and 1.79x higher performance(est)/watt on Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: HPL: App Version: oneMKL 2026.0 | LINPACK | Test by Intel as of March 2026 |
| [9G30] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.26x higher average performance and up to 1.55x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of Stream Triad, Linpack, Server-side Java, WordPress, NGINX(1S), MediaWiki(1S), MySQL, PostgreSQL, NGFW(1S), 5G Control Plane(1S), QuantLib. See [9G28], [9G29], [9W21], [9W23], [9W30], [9W25], [9D21], [9D23], [9N20], [9N21], [9H20] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G31]Up to 2.5x aggregate throughput gain and up to 1.2x throughput/core gain on preproduction Xeon 6+ over Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | Xeon 6+: 1-node, Intel Corporation AvenueCity, 2x Genuine Intel(R) Xeon 6+ (preproduction), 288 cores, 500W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P35.2602252056, microcode 0x81000100, 1x I210 Gigabit Network Connection, 1x 2.9T INTEL SSDPE2KE032T7, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 25.10, 6.17.0-22-generic. Test by Intel as of May 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Quanta Cloud Technology Inc. QuantaGrid D55Q-2U, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 512GB (16x32GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 3A16.QCT001, microcode 0x3000382, 2x BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller, 1x Linux-USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget, 1x 1.7T Micron_7450_MTFDKCC1T9TFR, Ubuntu 25.10, 6.17.0-29-generic. Test by Intel as of May 2026. Software: 1Ruff 0.15.13, corpus sizes: 10K, 30K, 60K, 100K Loc | 1Ruff Lint | Test by Intel as of May 2026 |
| [9G220] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.32x higher average performance/thread and up to 1.33x higher average performance/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of integer throughput, floating point throughput, Server-side Java, Server-side Java under SLA, WordPress, NGINX(1S), MediaWiki(1S), x264, x265, SVT-AV1, SHA-512_16KB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Data Analytics, 5G Control Plane(1S) and QuantLib. See [9G221], [9W221], [9W224], [9W225], [9W226], [9D220], [9D223], [9N220], [9H221] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ FFMPEG x265 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-110-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Intel: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x265 v.4.1, x265-1080p-medium-avx2. AMD: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x265 v.4.1, x265-1080p-medium-avx512 FFMPEG SVT-AV1 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7], 2x BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Intel: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, SVT-AV1 Encoder Lib v.4.1.0-7, SVT-AV1-preset6-CRF30-avx2. AMD: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, SVT-AV1 Encoder Lib v.4.1.0-7, SVT-AV1-preset6-CRF30-avx512. * Perf/thread/watt calculations used wall power, except for NGINX, MediaWiki, SHA512_16KB and 5G Control Plane which are based on socket power. | Geomean across numerous workloads | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9G221] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.31x higher average performance/thread and 1.38x higher performance/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.29x higher average integer throughput/thread and 1.39x higher integer throughput/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.33x higher average floating point throughput/thread and 1.38x higher floating point throughput/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of Integer and floating point throughputs per thread and per thread per watt General Compute: Integer and Floating-point throughput 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x I350 Gigabit Network Connection, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 2x 3.5T INTEL SSDPF2KX038TZ, 1x 1.7T Dell Ent NVMe AGN RI U.2 1.92TB, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Integer Throughput : Intel: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 | AMD: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 || Floating-point throughput: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 | AMD: SPECcpu2017 (est), GCC 15.2 , running on physical cores | SPECcpu2017(est) | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9H20] Up to 2.3x higher QuantLib performance and up to 1.70x higher performance/watt with Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 931.5G INTEL SSDPE2KX010T8, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as March 2026. Software: QuantLib v.1.42, oneAPI 2025.3, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | QuantLib | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9H221] Up to 1.55x higher performance/thread and up to 1.31x higher perf/thread/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on QuantLib benchmark | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Intel: QuantLib v.1.42, oneAPI 2025.3, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | AMD: QuantLib v.1.42, AOCC v.5.1.0, Spack v.1.2.0.dev0, Boost Library v.1.88 | QuantLib | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9N20] Up to 2.1x higher NGFW performance and up to 1.53x higher performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 192GB (12x16GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P44.2603252346, microcode 0x11000120, 10x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 223.6G KINGSTON SA400S37240G, 1x 238.5G Vi3000 Internal PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD 256GB, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 5.15.0-27-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 256GB (8x32GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.O44.2604122329, microcode 0x30003b2, 8x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 1x 238.5G WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY-256G,Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 5.15.0-27-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: ngfw-intel-cleartext, GCC 9.4, snort v.3.1.36.0, hyperscan v5.6.1, MCNAT v25.12, ice v.2.5.2 | Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9N21] Up to 2.24x higher 5G Control Plane performance and up to 1.55x higher performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1152GB (12x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P40.2603170757, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-2CQDA2 for QSFP, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, 5.14.0-284.100.1.el9_2.x86_64. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Dell Inc. PowerEdge R770, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 512GB (8x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.3.2, microcode 0x3000362, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-2CQDA2 for QSFP, 1x 1.8T INTEL SSDPE2KX020T8, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, 5.14.0-284.100.1.el9_2.x86_64. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Lansdslide v.24.1.0 & TAS 24.10.0.8, 5G packet core / Traffic generator, KDDI_FINAL_OCP-F02-758K-v2-boost-fix2, Flexcore 23.07, Kubernetes 10 node cluster with RH OCP. | 5G Control Plane (Landslide, TAS) | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9N22] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.16x higher average performance and up to 1.54x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E across networking workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of NGFW and 5G control plane perf and perf/watt. See [9N20], [9N21] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of NGFW and 5G control plane | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9N220] Up to 1.31x higher 5G Control Plane performance per thread and up to 1.45x higher performance/thread/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs AMD EPYC 9965 | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Intel Corporation Software Development Platform, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1152GB (12x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS BHSDCRB1.IPC.3545.P40.2603170757, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E810-2CQDA2 for QSFP, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, 5.14.0-284.100.1.el9_2.x86_64. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7725, 1x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.5.3, microcode 0xb101054, 1x 894.3G Dell DC NVMe PM9D3a RI U.2 960GB, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 5.14.0-284.100.1.el9_2.x86_64. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Lansdslide v.24.1.0 & TAS 24.10.0.8, 5G packet core / Traffic generator, KDDI_FINAL_OCP-F02-758K-v2-boost-fix2, Flexcore 23.07, Kubernetes 10 node cluster with RH OCP. | 5G Control Plane (Landslide, TAS) | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W20] Intel® Xeon® 6990E+ based servers delivers up to a 9.6 to 1 consolidation ratio versus using Intel® Xeon® 6258R based servers running a WordPress workload | Xeon 6+ | Use 10 racks (100 servers) of Intel® Xeon® 6990E+ based servers running WordPress, while delivering similar performance, instead of 48 racks (960 servers) of Intel® Xeon® 6258R based servers and save 23.1 GWh of energy and reduce carbon footprint by 9.8 kilotonnes CO2 over 4-years. Intel Xeon 288C 6990E+ delivers 9.5x higher performance and 3.7x higher performance/watt per server vs Intel Xeon 6258R on WordPress. WordPress 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6258R: 1-node, Supermicro SuperServer 6029P-WTRT, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6258R CPU @ 2.70GHz, 28 cores, 205W TDP, HT On, Turbo On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR4 3200MT/s [2933MT/s]), BIOS 3.8b, microcode 0x5003901, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 745.2G INTEL SSDSC2BB80, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM Assumptions: 1x 42U, 15KW Rack, supporting up to 20x 2U rack servers, 1x TOR switch, 1.6 PUE, kWh to kg CO2 factor 0.42394. For 48 racks of Intel Xeon 6258R based servers over 4-years, estimated as of May 2026: Energy use: 31.5 GWh, CO2 emissions: 13.3 kilotonnes. For 10 rack of Intel Xeon 288C 6990E+ based servers over 4-years, estimated as of May 2026: 8.4 GWh, CO2 emissions: 3.6 kilotonnes. Results may vary. | Wordpress | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W21] Up to 2.1x higher Server-side Java throughput and up to 2x higher Server-side Java throughput under SLA with Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E Up to 1.52x higher performance/watt with Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 | Server Side Java | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W23] Up to 2.2x higher WordPress performance and up to 1.60x higher performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 931.5G INTEL SSDPE2KX010T8, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026 Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM | Wordpress | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W24] Up to 1.23x higher WordPress performance with Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E830-CQDA2 Dual Port, 1x 931.5G INTEL SSDPE2KX010T8, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026 Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM | Wordpress | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W25] Up to 2.3x higher MediaWiki performance and up to 1.49x higher performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1152GB (12x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 1x RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 512GB (8x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: DCPerf Mediawiki v.1.0 | DCPerf MediaWiki | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W26] Up to 1.36 x higher MediaWiki performance with Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1152GB (12x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10G X550T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 512GB (8x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: DCPerf Mediawiki v.1.0 | DCPerf MediaWiki | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W27] Up to 2x higher x264 and x265 media transcode performance with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: x264: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x264 v.0.165.3223, AVC-1080p-medium-avx2. x265: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x265 v.4.1, x265-1080p-medium-avx2 | Media Transcode | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W29] Up to 2x higher SVT-AV1 media transcode performance with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software : FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, SVT-AV1 Encoder Lib v.4.1.0-7, SVT-AV1-preset6-CRF30-avx2 | Media Transcode | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W30] Up to 2.2x higher NGINX TLS performance and 1.64x higher performance/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 4x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 4x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: NGINX TLS v.1.3 Handshake-only, NGINX async v.1.0.0, OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v.2.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0. Cipher: AES128-GCM-SHA256 with ECDHE-X25519-RSA2K. Running on 1S. | NGINX TLS 1.3 | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W31] Up to 1.27x higher NGINX TLS performance with Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs. Intel Xeon 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6960E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960E+, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 4x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 4x Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: NGINX TLS v.1.3 Handshake-only, NGINX async v.1.0.0, OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v.2.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0. Cipher: AES128-GCM-SHA256 with ECDHE-X25519-RSA2K. Running on 1S. | NGINX TLS 1.3 | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W32] Up to 15.2x higher average performance on SM algorithms and up to 5.2x higher average performance on SHA algorithms with Intel® Xeon® 6990E+ vs. Intel® Xeon® 6780E | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-107-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 6780E: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222H-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6780E, 144 cores, 330W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1024GB (16x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.4, microcode 0x3000382, 2x Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GBASE-T, 1x 894.3G SAMSUNG MZ1L2960HCJR-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v. 2.0, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0 | OpenSSL | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W34] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2.24x higher average performance vs Intel Xeon 6780E across web services workloads Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.58x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E across web services workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of WordPress, NGINX(1S), and MediaWiki(1S) perf and perf/watt. See [9W23], [9W25], [9W30] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of WordPress, NGINX(1S), and MediaWiki(1S) | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W35] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 2x higher average performance and up to 1.48x higher average performance/watt vs Intel Xeon 6780E across media workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of x264, x265, and SVT-AV1 perf and perf/watt. See [9W27], [9W29] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of x264, x265, and SVT-AV1 | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W37] QAT hardware delivers near-equivalent TLS 1.3 handshake throughput while reducing CPU core usage by ~50%, significantly improving efficiency and freeing compute resources | Xeon 6+ | 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 4x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: NGINX TLS v.1.3 Handshake-only, NGINX async v.1.0.0, OpenSSL v.3.6.1. Cipher: AES128-GCM-SHA256 with ECDHE-X25519-RSA2K. Running on 1S. Crypto Acceleration: No QAT: default openSSL libraries QAT HW: QAT Engine v.2.0.0, QAT Driver QAT20.L.1.2.30-00109. | NGINX TLS 1.3 | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W220] Up to 1.24x higher performance/thread and 1.21x higher perf/thread/watt gains with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on NGINX TLS (1S) | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 4x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 2x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 4x Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP, 1x AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Intel: NGINX TLS v.1.3 Handshake-only, NGINX async v.1.0.0, OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v.2.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0, QAT Driver QAT20.L.1.2.30-00109. Cipher: AES128-GCM-SHA256 with ECDHE-X25519-RSA2K. Running on 1S. AMD: NGINX TLS v.1.3 Handshake-only, NGINX async v.1.0.0, OpenSSL v.3.6.1. Cipher: AES128-GCM-SHA256 with ECDHE-X25519-RSA2K. Running on 1S. | NGINX TLS 1.3 | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W221] Up to 1.22x higher perf/thread and 1.10x higher performance/thread/watt with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on ServerSide Java | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, CentOS Stream 9, 5.14.0-687.el9.x86_64. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07, 1x 29.9G Flash Drive, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: Server Side Java, Open JDK v.25.0.2 | Server Side Java | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W222] Up to 1.37x higher performance/thread and 1.21x higher perf/thread/watt gains with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on WordPress | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller E835-CC for QSFP, 2x Ethernet Controller X550, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 100GbE Dual-Port, 1x 3.5T INTEL SSDPF2KX038TZ, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-84-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: WordPress v.6.5.4-php8.1-fpm, https connections, OpenSSL v.3.1.4, NGINX v.1.22.0, MariaDB v.11.4.2, Siege v4.1.5. MultiVMs, 1 VM per NUMA node, 1GB memory per vCPU, 1 WordPress server per VM | Wordpress | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W223] Up to 1.45x higher perf/thread/watt and 1.36x higher performance/thread gains with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on MediaWiki (1S) | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 1152GB (12x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 1x RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 1x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 768GB (12x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, 6.8.0-94-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: DCPerf Mediawiki v.1.0 | DCPerf MediaWiki | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W224] Up to 1.26x higher perf/thread/watt and 1.22x higher performance/thread gains with Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 on FFMPEG x264 | Xeon 6+ | 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo On, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7], 2x BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-106-generic. Test by Intel as of March 2026. Software: FFmpeg v.8.0.1, GCC 13.3.0, x264 v.0.165.3223, AVC-1080p-medium-avx2. | Media Transcode | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |
| [9W225] Up to 6.2x higher average performance on SM algorithms and up to 2.6x higher average performance on SHA algorithms with Intel® Xeon® 6990E+ vs. AMD EPYC 9965 | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of SM algorithms based on sm3_16384B, sm4-cbc_16384B, sm4-gcm_16384B, sm4-xts_16384B, and sm4-ccm_16384B. Geomean of SHA algorithms based on sha384_16384B, sha512_16384B, sha512-224_16384B, and sha512-256_16384B. 6990E+: 1-node, Supermicro SYS-222HA-TN, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6990E+, 288 cores, 450W TDP, HT N/A, Turbo Off, Total Memory 2304GB (24x96GB DDR5 8000MT/s [8000MT/s]), BIOS T20260320104526, microcode 0x1000110, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 6.8.0-107-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. 9965: 1-node, Supermicro AS -2126HS-TN, 2x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core Processor, 192 cores, 500W TDP, SMT On, Boost On, Total Memory 1536GB (24x64GB DDR5 6400MT/s [6400MT/s]), BIOS 1.7a, microcode 0xb101054, 2x Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2, 1x 1.7T SAMSUNG MZ1L21T9HCLS-00A07, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 6.8.0-101-generic. Test by Intel as of April 2026. Software: Intel: OpenSSL v.3.6.1, Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer Crypto Library v. 2.0, Intel IPP Crypto Library v.1.3.0, QAT Engine v.2.0.0 | AMD: OpenSSL v.3.6.1 | OpenSSL | Test by Intel as of April 2026 |
| [9W226] Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers up to 1.32x higher average performance/thread and 1.29x higher average performance/thread/watt vs AMD EPYC 9965 across web services workloads | Xeon 6+ | Geomean of WordPress, NGINX(1S), and MediaWiki(1S) perf. See [9W220], [9W222], [9W223] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+ | Geomean of WordPress, NGINX(1S), and MediaWiki(1S) perf | Test by Intel as of March-April 2026 |