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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R vs Apple M3
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
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Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries
218 entries
Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries
219 entries
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
140 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Xeon Silver (32) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | Intel Xeon Silver 4200 (11) | Apple M3 (6) |
| Architecture | Cascade Lake | M3 |
| Technology | 14 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Desktop | Notebook |
| Socket | LGA 3647 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M2 | |
| Successor | Apple M4 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✓ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 8x 3.20 - 4.00 GHz |
4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 20.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 11.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | no iGPU | Apple M3 (10 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.39 - 1.40 GHz | |
| CUs / Shader | / | 160 / 1280 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 2 | |
| Max. GPU Memory | 24 GB | |
| Technology | 3 nm | |
| Release date | Q4/2023 |
NPU AI performance
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4-2400 (115.2 GB/s) | LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 1024 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory channels | 6 | 2 |
| ECC | Yes | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 48 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 47.3 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 130 W | 22 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | 15 W | |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Intel Xeon Silver 4215R | Apple M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Monolithic | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux | macOS, iPadOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date | Q1/2020 | Q4/2023 |
| Release price | 794 $ | |
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
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8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz
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