Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V 36c/72t 2.1GHz-3.5GHz 195W (CD8068904571501)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V — High-Density Ice Lake CPU for Parallel Enterprise & Cloud Workloads

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V is a 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processor built on the Ice Lake-SP architecture and designed for infrastructures that prioritize maximum thread density, predictable high-throughput performance and efficient multi-socket scalability. With 36 cores, 72 threads, a 2.1 GHz base clock and turbo frequencies up to 3.5 GHz, the 8352V targets environments where parallel workload saturation is the norm rather than the exception.

One of the defining characteristics of this processor is its balance between core count, power envelope and cache structure. The 54 MB L3 cache provides sufficient on-die capacity to sustain large, parallelized workloads such as distributed analytics, microservice platforms, high-density VM clusters and horizontally scaled application tiers. In many enterprise deployments, the 8352V is chosen as a “high-density default” due to its ability to maintain stable performance across a wide spectrum of mixed workloads without requiring top-tier premium SKUs.

Memory performance is central to the 8352V’s real-world efficiency. The CPU supports eight DDR4 channels per socket with speeds up to 2933 MT/s and configurations reaching 6 TB when paired with appropriate DIMMs. This makes it a strong option for workloads that depend on large in-memory datasets, including Redis clusters, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch search nodes, columnar analytical databases, and JVM-based services prone to heap expansion under unpredictable load.

I/O bandwidth is another relevant advantage. With 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes per socket, systems powered by the 8352V can integrate high-speed NVMe arrays, multiple 100G NICs, hardware accelerators, or a combination of these without saturating the PCIe fabric. This bandwidth profile is especially relevant for organizations adopting storage-heavy microservice architectures or designing scalable edge nodes with accelerated networking requirements.

From a compute-feature standpoint, the 8352V includes full Ice Lake instruction support: AVX-512, VNNI/DL Boost, AES-NI and virtualization extensions VT-x, VT-d and EPT. These capabilities are useful for AI inference frameworks, modern encryption-heavy networking stacks and hypervisor environments that must support secure tenant isolation with minimal performance overhead.

Compared to the 8352Y, this model provides more cores while retaining moderate frequencies, making it a better fit for workloads where thread count outweighs per-core performance. It is commonly deployed in:

• Cloud compute pools with high VM density
• Distributed analytics and OLAP clusters
• Large-scale enterprise microservices
• High-capacity edge nodes
• Virtualization and container orchestration at scale

Organizations selecting the 8352V typically aim for stable, sustained throughput under parallel load conditions and value the combination of PCIe 4.0, expansive memory support and strong multi-socket scaling behavior inherent to the Ice Lake-SP generation.