Intel Xeon Gold 6240R Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Xeon Gold 6240R has 24 cores with 48 threads and is based on the 2. gen of the Intel Xeon Gold series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 3647 socket and was released in Q1/2020. The Intel Xeon Gold 6240R scores 1,147 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 17,218 points.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240R

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Xeon Gold 6240R. 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 6240R.

Name: Intel Xeon Gold 6240R
Family: Intel Xeon Gold (163)
CPU group: Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200 (55)
Architecture: Cascade Lake
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 2
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Gold 6240R has 24 CPU cores and can calculate 48 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 6240R is 2.40 GHz (4.00 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 24 / 48
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 24x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (24 Cores): 2.60 GHz

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 1024 GB memory in 6 (Hexa Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 140.7 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2933
140.7 GB/s
Max. Memory: 1024 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 165 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): 165 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 76 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 6240R 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 38.50 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: 38.50 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: Q1/2020
Release price: 3950 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

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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.
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28C 56T @ 4.00 GHz
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24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz
1147
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8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
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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.
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16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz
17595
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24C 32T @ 3.90 GHz
17407
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24C 48T @ 2.60 GHz
17218
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