Intel Xeon 6741P 48c/96t 2.5GHz-3.8GHz 300W (PK8072006304900)

Intel Xeon 6741P — 48-Core Granite Rapids CPU for Scalable Analytics, Distributed ML and High-Throughput Enterprise Pipelines

The Intel Xeon 6741P is a high-performance 48-core processor built on the Granite Rapids architecture and engineered for data-center environments requiring predictable scaling, sustained parallelism and exceptional memory bandwidth. With 48 cores, 96 threads, a 2.5 GHz base frequency and turbo performance reaching 3.8 GHz, this model serves as a balanced platform for enterprise workloads that combine real-time computation, large dataset manipulation and multi-stage decision pipelines.

Where the 6740P emphasizes broad throughput, the 6741P offers higher base frequency, making it particularly effective for mixed workloads — cases where both high parallelism and stronger per-core performance matter. These include recommendation systems, fraud detection, multi-modal inference services, real-time personalization engines and transactional analytics layers deployed atop distributed microservice architectures.

A significant capability of this processor is its 288 MB shared L3 cache, optimized for applications with unpredictable memory access patterns such as graph engines, hybrid transactional/analytical systems (HTAP), high-density messaging fabrics and distributed ML inference clusters. The larger cache minimizes cross-thread stalls and lowers memory latency under high concurrency.

The Xeon 6741P supports eight DDR5 channels at 6400 MT/s, providing the memory throughput required for heavy ETL workloads, real-time feature computation, data normalization pipelines and iterative numerical algorithms. Systems built around this processor can sustain large in-memory datasets, making it suitable for platforms such as Spark, Flink, ClickHouse, Druid and modern vector databases.

With 136 PCIe 5.0 lanes, the 6741P is an exceptionally flexible compute node for accelerator-rich environments. This lane capacity enables integrators to deploy multi-GPU clusters, FPGA add-ons, high-speed networking stacks and dense NVMe arrays without PCIe bottlenecks—crucial for AI feature engineering pipelines, high-speed inference layers, simulation workloads and hybrid cloud edge setups.

In real operational contexts, the Xeon 6741P excels in:

• High-frequency inference workloads combining CPU and GPU stages
• Real-time supply-chain optimization and route computation
• Event-driven analytics infrastructures
• AI-assisted cybersecurity monitoring and anomaly detection
• Distributed financial modeling and risk computation
• Data-plane services requiring consistent sub-millisecond response times

The Xeon 6741P is essentially a compute platform for organizations scaling toward AI-first architectures. It combines parallel compute density, bandwidth-rich memory architecture, and forward-looking PCIe expansion. For enterprises designing multi-year platforms around real-time analytics, low-latency inference and rapid data transformation pipelines, the 6741P provides the balance needed to maintain agility under increasing workload diversity.