Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y 32c/64t 2.1GHz-4.1GHz 225W (PK8071305120802)

Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y — High-Performance Sapphire Rapids CPU for Modern Enterprise Compute

The Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y is a 32-core Sapphire Rapids processor engineered for dual-socket servers requiring both strong parallel throughput and elevated turbo responsiveness. With a 2.1 GHz base clock and 4.1 GHz turbo frequency, it offers stable performance across microservices, distributed data platforms and multi-tenant compute clusters.

Sapphire Rapids architecture improves instruction pipelines, memory handling and speculative execution, resulting in more predictable behavior under mixed workloads. This makes the 6448Y particularly effective for API-heavy environments, Java-based enterprise systems, real-time analytics and workloads sensitive to tail latency.

The processor uses an eight-channel DDR5 memory subsystem running at 4400–4800 MT/s, delivering significantly higher bandwidth than previous-generation platforms. Applications such as distributed caches, search engines, telemetry systems and large-scale streaming workloads benefit from reduced memory contention and improved concurrency.

With 2 MB of L2 cache per core and a shared 60 MB L3, the 6448Y handles branch-heavy operations, frequent context switching and metadata-driven workloads with higher efficiency. This architecture supports environments with large numbers of small tasks, including orchestration frameworks, CI/CD systems and event-driven processing.

The CPU provides 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes, enabling the use of high-speed NVMe storage, accelerator cards, SmartNICs and next-generation networking hardware. This I/O capacity helps datacenters scale storage and networking throughput alongside compute performance.

Featuring a 225 W TDP, the Xeon Gold 6448Y is optimized for sustained workloads in modern enterprise servers. It is well suited for virtualization clusters, multi-layer application backends, cloud-native compute fabrics and complex hybrid workloads requiring both frequency and bandwidth stability.