Intel Xeon Gold 5423N vs Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Xeon Gold 5423N CPU1 vs CPU2 Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N or Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N has 20 cores with 40 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.00 GHz. Up to 4096 GB of memory is supported in 8 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N was released in Q1/2023.

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) was released in Q3/2023.
Intel Xeon Gold (163) Family Broadcom BCM (3)
Intel Xeon Gold 5400/6400 Edge Enhanced (8) CPU group Broadcom BCM2712 (1)
4 Generation 5
Sapphire Rapids Edge Enh. Architecture Cortex-A76
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N has 20 CPU cores and can calculate 40 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 5423N is 2.10 GHz (4.00 GHz) while the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) is at 1.00 GHz (2.40 GHz).

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Characteristic Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
20 Cores 4
40 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? Yes
2.10 GHz Frequency 1.00 GHz
4.00 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 2.40 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 2.40 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Characteristic Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N or Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU Broadcom VideoCore VII
GPU frequency 0.80 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) --
-- GPU Generation --
Technology 16 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 8
-- Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 4 GB
-- DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Broadcom VideoCore VII
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode
No Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N can use up to 4096 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 256.0 GB/s. The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) supports up to 8 GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 17.1 GB/s.

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Characteristic Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Memory LPDDR4X-4266
4096 GB Max. Memory 8 GB
8 (Octa Channel) Memory channels 1 (Single Channel)
256.0 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 17.1 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache 2.00 MB
37.50 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 2.0
48 PCIe lanes 4
94.5 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon Gold 5423N is 145 W, while the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has a TDP of 12 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Characteristic Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
145 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 12 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 88 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 5423N is manufactured in 10 nm and has 37.50 MB cache. The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) is manufactured in 16 nm and has a 4.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Characteristic Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
10 nm Technology 16 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 ISA extensions --
LGA 4677 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows, Linux Operating systems Windows 11 (ARM), Linux
Q1/2023 Release date Q3/2023
1508 $ Release price 79 $
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Intel Xeon Gold 5423N
20C 40T @ 4.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
574 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Intel Xeon Gold 5423N
20C 40T @ 2.10 GHz
0 (0%)
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1635 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Intel Xeon Gold 5423N
20C 40T @ 4.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
787 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Intel Xeon Gold 5423N
20C 40T @ 2.10 GHz
0 (0%)
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1747 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Intel Xeon Gold 5423N
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Broadcom VideoCore VII @ 0.80 GHz
120 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon Gold 5423N Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Unknown Raspberry Pi 5 B

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