Intel Xeon 6740P 48c/96t 2.1GHz-3.8GHz 270W (PK8072006270100)

Intel Xeon 6740P — 48-Core Granite Rapids CPU for Large-Scale Analytics, HPC Acceleration and High-Bandwidth Data Platforms

The Intel Xeon 6740P is a 48-core Granite Rapids processor designed for enterprise workloads where massive parallelism, predictable memory behavior and high-bandwidth I/O converge. With 48 cores, 96 threads, a 2.1 GHz base clock and support for up to 3.8 GHz turbo, this CPU targets data-intensive systems that must handle continuous ingest, real-time analytics and complex multi-stage compute pipelines without throughput collapse.

The architecture of the 6740P emphasizes strong scaling efficiency and deterministic latency under concurrent load. This makes it particularly suited for infrastructures such as feature stores, vector databases, risk-scoring engines, ML inference clusters, large telemetry platforms and distributed scientific simulations. These environments frequently require thousands of parallel tasks that coordinate through shared memory — and Granite Rapids cores deliver the stable execution windows such systems rely on.

A defining characteristic of this processor is its 288 MB L3 cache, one of the largest among its class. This significantly reduces memory traffic in analytics workloads and performance-sensitive data engines, improving efficiency in algorithms that depend on repeated access to evolving datasets — for example, graph traversal, search ranking, matrix factorization and sparse ML inference pipelines.

The memory subsystem supports 8-channel DDR5 at 6400 MT/s, enabling extremely high bandwidth that benefits ETL operations, real-time aggregations, numerical solvers and distributed ML preprocessing. In scenarios where multiple compute stages run simultaneously — ingestion, transformation, decisioning — the Xeon 6740P maintains workload isolation and minimizes cross-service contention.

The I/O fabric includes 88 PCIe 5.0 lanes, making the CPU ideal for:

• Multi-accelerator configurations (GPU or FPGA)
• Dense NVMe storage for time-series and columnar databases
• High-throughput NICs for microservice meshes and distributed computation
• Mixed CPU/GPU inference backends
• Real-time video and sensor processing pipelines

This design allows integrators to build nodes that balance storage, compute and acceleration without bottlenecking the PCIe interface, which is especially important for modern AI-driven analytics stacks.

In practical use, the Xeon 6740P excels in:

• High-throughput stream processing and message routing
• Real-time analytics engines (Presto, ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot)
• Distributed ML inference at scale
• Financial modeling and Monte Carlo simulation
• High-resolution telemetry processing
• Multi-tenant cloud workloads that rely on consistent latency

The Xeon 6740P presents itself as a versatile processor that bridges classic HPC compute with modern cloud-native workloads. Its combination of large cache, high core density and PCIe 5.0 bandwidth positions it as a strong choice for enterprises building next-generation data platforms.