Intel Xeon Platinum 8358P 32c/64t 2.6GHz-3.4GHz 240W (CD8068904599101)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8358P — High-Frequency Ice Lake CPU for Demanding Enterprise, Cloud and HPC Workloads

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8358P is part of the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake family and is engineered for environments that require both high multi-thread throughput and elevated per-core frequency. With 32 cores, 64 threads and a boosted base frequency of 2.6 GHz, the 8358P sits in the performance-optimized tier of Ice Lake processors, making it an excellent choice for latency-sensitive cloud services, enterprise analytics, HPC clusters and tightly coupled simulation workloads.

One of the key advantages of the 8358P is its balance between core count and higher sustained frequency. Many Ice Lake processors focus on maximum parallelism, but the 8358P targets mixed workloads where strong single-thread performance and low latency matter just as much as multi-threading. This positioning makes it suitable for computational tasks such as financial modeling, distributed microservices, in-memory databases, simulation engines and large JVM ecosystems where GC behavior, query performance or event processing benefit from higher per-core performance.

The processor includes a 48 MB L3 cache, which helps maintain consistent throughput during irregular access patterns typical of analytical queries, real-time processing pipelines and frameworks with dynamic workload distribution. This cache structure also benefits HPC solvers using iterative algorithms, numerical models or matrix-heavy operations.

Memory bandwidth is a major strength of the Ice Lake architecture. The Xeon Platinum 8358P supports eight DDR4 channels with speeds up to 3200 MT/s and total capacity up to 6 TB in multi-socket deployments. This makes the CPU exceptionally well suited for workloads that rely on wide memory access: in-memory analytics platforms, high-throughput caching layers, real-time data ingestion and large simulation datasets.

PCIe 4.0 support brings substantial improvements in connectivity and I/O scaling. With 64 lanes available, systems based on the 8358P can integrate multiple GPUs, high-speed NVMe storage clusters, advanced networking hardware and accelerator cards without saturating the PCIe fabric. This is essential for AI inference workloads, high-bandwidth video processing, storage-dense servers and scientific applications that require rapid data movement.

Advanced ISA support includes the full AVX-512 stack, Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI), DL Boost and enhanced cryptographic extensions. These capabilities provide measurable acceleration for AI inference, compression, scientific computing, encryption, virtualization and cloud orchestration systems.

The Xeon Platinum 8358P is typically deployed in:

• Mid-range HPC clusters with mixed compute workloads
• Enterprise analytics systems and real-time data platforms
• Virtualized cloud nodes requiring predictable frequency scaling
• Database servers with concurrent transactional + analytical patterns
• Simulation and engineering pipelines (CFD, FEA, Monte Carlo, multiphysics)
• AI inference environments relying on both CPU-native and accelerator-assisted compute

Compared to the 8352 family, the 8358P focuses on higher sustained performance, making it a strong option for organizations that need a more responsive compute layer without sacrificing thread count or memory capacity.