Red Hat Enterprise Linux Achieves Significant Performance Gains With Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processors
Red Hat News, April 20th, 2023
Intel recently launched the 4th generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, a family of high-end, enterprise-focused processors targeted at a diverse range of workloads.
To explore how Intel's new chips measure up, we've worked with Intel and others to run benchmarks with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.0 and 9.1, as well as CentOS Stream 9.2 (which will become Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2).
The new 4th gen (created under the codename Sapphire Rapids) packages include more CPUs per socket - up to 60 cores and 120 threads - compared to the 3rd generation with up to 36 cores and 72 threads. In addition, the 4th generation memory features DDR5 4800 MT/s with four UPI links @ 16 GT/s per socket along with 80 lanes of PCIe gen5 I/O capabilities.