Intel Xeon Gold 5120 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-05-10

The Intel Xeon Gold 5120 has 14 cores with 28 threads and is based on the 1. gen of the Intel Xeon Gold series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 3647 socket and was released in Q3/2017. The Intel Xeon Gold 5120 scores 889 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 9,933 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Xeon Gold 5120. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Xeon Gold 5120.
Name:	Intel Xeon Gold 5120
Family:	Intel Xeon Gold
CPU group:	Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100
Architecture:	Skylake
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	1
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Gold 5120 has 14 CPU cores and can calculate 28 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 5120 is 2.20 GHz (3.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	14 / 28
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	14x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (14 Cores):	2.60 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Xeon Gold 5120 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Xeon Gold 5120 uses the no iGPU, which has texture shaders and execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	no iGPU
GPU frequency:
GPU (Turbo):	No turbo
Compute units:
Shader:
Max. GPU Memory:	--

Max. displays:
Generation:
Direct X:	--
Technology:
Release date:

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	No
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	No
VC-1:	No
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 768 GB memory in 6 (Hexa Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 115.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR4-2400	115.2 GB/s
Max. Memory:	768 GB
Memory channels:	6 (Hexa Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 48
PCIe Bandwidth:	47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 105 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	105 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 5120 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 19.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 3647
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	19.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date:	Q3/2017
Release price:	1700 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Xeon Gold 5120
14C 28T @ 2.20 GHz (3.20 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Xeon Gold 5120 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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 E5-2667 v2 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	891
	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	890
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	890
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz	889
	Intel Pentium Gold G6405T 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	889
	Intel Pentium Gold G6500T 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	889
	Intel Xeon Silver 4209T 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	889

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 E-2378 8C 16T @ 2.60 GHz	9986
	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme 8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz	9977
	Intel Xeon Gold 5119T 14C 28T @ 2.20 GHz	9963
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 2.60 GHz	9933
	Intel Xeon D-2183IT 16C 32T @ 2.20 GHz	9914
	AMD Ryzen 7 6800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	9874
	Intel Core i7-11700F 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	9872

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 Core i5-6267U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1052
	Intel Core i7-4870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1050
	Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	1048
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz	1047
	Intel Core i7-5557U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1047
	Intel Core i5-6350HQ 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1046
	Intel Core i5-6300HQ 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1046

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Athlon 200GE 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	302
	Intel Core i5-8210Y 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	302
	Intel Core i5-6300U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	299
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz	298
	Intel Core i7-3770 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	298
	AMD EPYC 7351 16C 32T @ 2.90 GHz	296
	Intel Core i7-4720HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	295

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 4700GE 8C 16T @ 3.70 GHz	4425
	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 8C 16T @ 2.60 GHz	4349
	Intel Core i9-9900 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	4346
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 2.60 GHz	4344
	Intel Core i7-9800X 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	4338
	AMD Ryzen 9 4900H 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	4332
	Intel Core i5-11600KF 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	4320

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Xeon D-1736NT 8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz	17842
	Intel Core i5-11500B 6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz	17811
	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	17803
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 2.60 GHz	17703
	Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	17608
	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8C 16T @ 3.85 GHz	17588
	Intel Core i5-11500 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	17532

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-4570 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	140
	Intel Core i5-4570S 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	140
	Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	140
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz	139
	AMD Athlon 3000G 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	139
	Intel Core i3-8121U 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	139
	Intel Core i5-8400T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	139

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD EPYC 7281 16C 32T @ 2.70 GHz	2033
	AMD EPYC 7301 16C 32T @ 2.70 GHz	2033
	Intel Xeon W-2155 10C 20T @ 4.00 GHz	2021
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14C 28T @ 2.60 GHz	2015
	Intel Xeon Gold 5120T 14C 28T @ 2.60 GHz	2015
	Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 14C 28T @ 2.70 GHz	2004
	Intel Xeon Gold 6126 12C 24T @ 3.00 GHz	1996

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,398 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,371 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,646 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
588 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
941 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
937 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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