Intel Xeon Gold 6140 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-05-10

The Intel Xeon Gold 6140 has 18 cores with 36 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 6140 scores 1,043 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 14,643 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Xeon Gold 6140. 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 6140.
Name:	Intel Xeon Gold 6140
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 6140 has 18 CPU cores and can calculate 36 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 6140 is 2.30 GHz (3.70 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	18 / 36
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	18x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (18 Cores):	2.80 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 6140 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Xeon Gold 6140 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 128.1 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR4-2666	128.1 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 140 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):	140 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 6140 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 25.00 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:	25.00 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:	5400 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Xeon Gold 6140
18C 36T @ 2.30 GHz (3.70 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Xeon Gold 6140 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.


	AMD EPYC 7662 64C 128T @ 3.30 GHz	1046
	Intel Xeon D-1749NT 10C 20T @ 3.50 GHz	1045
	Intel Xeon D-1739 8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz	1044
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz	1043
	AMD Ryzen 3 7320U 4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	1043
	Google Tensor 8C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	1043
	AMD EPYC 7302P 16C 32T @ 3.30 GHz	1043

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.


	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24C 48T @ 3.00 GHz	14740
	Intel Core i9-13900HK 14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz	14712
	AMD EPYC 7451 24C 48T @ 2.90 GHz	14671
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	14643
	Intel Core i9-13900H 14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz	14632
	Intel Xeon Gold 6230 20C 40T @ 2.50 GHz	14529
	Intel Xeon W-2275 14C 28T @ 4.00 GHz	14528

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 6144 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	1275
	AMD EPYC 7302 16C 32T @ 3.30 GHz	1274
	Intel Core i7-10510Y 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	1273
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz	1272
	Intel Core i5-10400T 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	1272
	Intel Core i7-7700 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	1272
	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1272

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 W-2191B 18C 36T @ 3.40 GHz	9768
	Intel Core i9-11980HK 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	9766
	Intel Core i5-13420H 8C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	9755
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	9744
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12C 24T @ 4.10 GHz	9740
	Intel Core i5-13400F 10C 16T @ 3.90 GHz	9712
	Intel Core i5-13400 10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz	9712

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 Core i5-12600HX 12C 16T @ 2.50 GHz	24105
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	24035
	Intel Xeon W-2170B 14C 28T @ 3.60 GHz	23972
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	23965
	Intel Xeon W-1370 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	23924
	Intel Xeon W-1390 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	23917
	AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	23840

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 Xeon E3-1280 v3 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	162
	Intel Xeon E3-1285 v3 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	162
	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	162
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz	161
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz	161
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8160F 24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz	161
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8160M 24C 48T @ 3.70 GHz	161

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.


	Intel Xeon W-2265 12C 24T @ 4.20 GHz	2860
	Intel Core i9-7940X 14C 28T @ 3.70 GHz	2849
	Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 22C 44T @ 2.80 GHz	2840
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	2785
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140M 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	2785
	Intel Core i9-10900KF 10C 20T @ 4.90 GHz	2668
	Intel Core i9-10900K 10C 20T @ 4.90 GHz	2668

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 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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