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Data Centric Leadership Performance

ID	Date	Classification
633616	11/10/2021	Public

Cisco Performance Leadership

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Cisco Unified Computing System™

Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS®) is an analytics-powered, cloud-operated, fabric-centric, and programmable design that places IT at the center of innovation to power apps and data in a hybrid cloud world. Powered by 6th generation Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. Cisco UCS is engineered to simplify your data center environment and improve operational efficiency while addressing the dynamic needs of mission-critical, scale-out and hybrid applications. With the increase in performance, you can focus more on business outcomes with a hybrid cloud infrastructure that’s operated from the cloud.

The Cisco UCS C220 M8 Rack Server is the 1RU, 2-socket Cisco® UCS C220 M8 Rack Server designed to meet the needs of customers that choose to deploy high density rack-mount servers. It combines the latest Intel processors and is a versatile general-purpose application and infrastructure server delivering leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, collaboration, and bare-metal applications. This Server extends the capabilities of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS®) rack server portfolio incorporating Intel Xeon 6 CPUs. Improve security, performance, and efficiency while helping achieve sustainability goals with built-in accelerators the such as Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT), Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), and In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA).

The Cisco UCS C240 M8 Rack Server is the 2RU, 2-socket Cisco® UCS C240 M8 Rack Server designed to meet the needs of customers who need I/O flexibility and larger storage capacity rack-mount servers. It combines the fastest Intel processors and is a versatile general-purpose application and infrastructure server delivering leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including AI, big-data analytics, databases, collaboration, virtualization, and high-performance computing. It extends the similar capabilities of the Cisco UCS C220 M8 rack server.

Cisco UCS X Series Modular System

Cisco UCS X Series is the first modular system designed for the age of hybrid cloud and the first-of-its kind platform that blurs the lines between rack and blade systems.

The Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System begins with the Cisco UCS X9508 Server Chassis engineered to be adaptable and future-ready. The chassis has a unified Ethernet fabric with Cisco UCS Intelligent Fabric Modules and Cisco UCS X-Fabric Technology for other technologies. With the chassis' midplane-free design, either fabric can be independently upgraded.

Powered by the Cisco Intersight ™ cloud operations platform, UCS X-Series simplifies your data center environment, adapts to the unpredictable needs of modern applications, reduces the number of server types to maintain, and improves operational efficiency and agility.

Cisco UCS X-Series utilizes 6^th Gen Intel Xeon 6 processors, a balanced architecture with built-in acceleration and advanced security capabilities, delivering consistent, predictable application performance for the most important workloads from Edge to Cloud.

The Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis is an open system designed to deploy and automate faster in collaboration with your hybrid cloud environment. This seven RU, midplane-free chassis has eight front slots for modules, and rear slots for Ethernet and X-Fabric technology.

The Cisco UCS X210c M8 Compute Node is the two-socket server brings Intel® Xeon® 6 processors to the Cisco®UCS X-Series Modular System powered by Cisco Intersight. It offers more performance and faster I/O and it can help improve security, performance, and efficiency of applications while helping achieve sustainability goals with built-in accelerators such as Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT), Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), and In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA). New to the UCS X210c M8 Compute Node is UCS X10c Pass Through Controller for E3.S drives, supporting up to nine PCIe Gen5 NVMe drives. With all the benefits of a modular system and the increased storage capacity, the X210c M8 is an ideal server for data-intensive applications including Hyperconverged Infra-structure (HCI), AI, databases, and backup and disaster recovery.

The Cisco UCS X410c M8 Compute Node is a 4-socket mission-critical server. It is designed to deliver performance and efficiency gains for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise applications, memory-intensive applications, bare-metal, and virtualized workloads. Improve application performance with 6th Gen Intel^® Xeon^® 6 Processors and increased memory bandwidth.

Overall Performance Leadership on Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors

All claims valid as of 09 September 2025 unless otherwise noted

Segment/Benchmark	Platform	Importance
AI/ML/DL MLPerf 5.0 Inference Datacenter	Cisco UCS C240 M8	Leadership Intel Xeon 6700 P Series Performance on the following metrics - 2S MLPerf 5.0 Inference Datacenter 3d-unet-99.9 (o), gptj-99.9 (o,s), resnet50 (o,s), and retinanet (o,s)
AI/ML/DL MLPerf 5.1 Inference Datacenter	Cisco UCS X210 M8	Leadership Intel Xeon 6700 P Series Performance on the following metrics - 2S MLPerf 5.1 Inference Datacenter dlrm-v2-99.9 (o), llama3_1-8b (o), retinanet (o, s), rgat (o) See AI Performance: MLPerf Inference on this platform

Segment/Benchmark

Platform

Importance

AI/ML/DL MLPerf 5.0 Inference Datacenter

Cisco UCS C240 M8

Leadership Intel Xeon 6700 P Series Performance on the following metrics

- 2S MLPerf 5.0 Inference Datacenter 3d-unet-99.9 (o), gptj-99.9 (o,s), resnet50 (o,s), and retinanet (o,s)

AI/ML/DL MLPerf 5.1 Inference Datacenter

Cisco UCS X210 M8

Leadership Intel Xeon 6700 P Series Performance on the following metrics

- 2S MLPerf 5.1 Inference Datacenter dlrm-v2-99.9 (o), llama3_1-8b (o), retinanet (o, s), rgat (o)

See AI Performance: MLPerf Inference on this platform

Results and configurations for claims as of 09 September 2025

MLPerf 5.0 Inference Datacenter

Claim based on:

https://github.com/mlcommons/inference_results_v5.0/tree/main/closed/Cisco/results/1-node-2S-GNR_86C

MLPerf 5.1 Inference Datacenter

Claim based on:

https://github.com/mlcommons/inference_results_v5.1/tree/main/closed/Cisco/results/X210M8-1-node-2S-GNR_86C

Industry Performance Leadership

	Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the globe by enabling machines to learn, infer, and make decisions based on data. This document explores how organizations can implement AI solutions with the help of Cisco®, focusing on inferencing.
	Health and Life Sciences Kaleida Health embarked on a sweeping data center modernization effort built with Cisco UCS, and Cisco ACI based on 5^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, dramatically simplifying its IT operations and save millions of dollars each year. Kaleida Heath is also creating an innovation center where new healthcare technologies and use cases can be tested. Learn more.
	Cisco Intersight Platform In an always-on, hyper-distributed world, your apps, data, users, infrastructure, and IT teams need to stay connected to deliver a modern digital experience. Cisco Intersight is the world's simplest hybrid cloud platform that simplifies operations across on-premises data centers, edge sites, public clouds, and continuously optimizes and accelerates service delivery. Delivered as Software as a Service, Cisco Intersight is a modular platform capable of addressing your unique business requirements and use cases. Learn more about Intersights.
	Financial Services Cisco is the leading provider of networking, data center, cloud, collaboration, and security solutions in the financial services industry. IDC has consistently ranked Cisco in the top 5 for Financial Insights at the Enterprise level. Learn more
	Comms Services and Network Edge Cisco is paving the way to a more inclusive internet for the future by converging infrastructure in multiple dimensions and redefining the economics of mass-scale networking. Cisco capitalizes on the intelligent network to improve costs, maximize innovation, and increase revenue velocity. Learn more
	Retail Manual stocking and inventory replenishment have always been a time consuming, error-prone process - until now. Using Cisco Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, Vispera created a solution capable of digitizing store inventory with better recognition accuracy. Learn more.

Disclaimers

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. For more information go to www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.

Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy.

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