Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 32c/64t 2.8GHz-3.6GHz 265W (CD8068904722404)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8362: High-Frequency 32-Core Processor for Enterprise Virtualization, Databases and HPC Workloads

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 is one of the highest-performance general-purpose CPUs in the Ice Lake-SP generation, built for multi-socket enterprise servers, dense virtualization clusters and HPC environments requiring both strong frequency and scalable parallel performance. With 32 cores, 64 threads, a 2.8 GHz base frequency and turbo speeds up to 3.6 GHz, the 8362 delivers one of the most effective frequency-to-core-count balances in the entire Ice Lake lineup.

Designed for 2-socket deployments, the Platinum 8362 enables systems with 64 cores and 128 threads combined, while maintaining full PCIe 4.0 bandwidth and access to eight-channel DDR4-3200 memory per socket. This makes the processor exceptionally well-suited for VMware clusters, OpenShift and Kubernetes control nodes, large enterprise database platforms and high-density cloud hosting environments that depend on predictable scaling and high throughput.

A key strength of the 8362 is its elevated base frequency, which provides a performance advantage over other 32-core Ice Lake models such as the Platinum 8358 and efficiency-focused Gold SKUs. The higher base clock benefits workloads with mixed instruction profiles, including enterprise Java applications, distributed SQL engines, real-time analytics pipelines, search clusters and middleware layers where latency and single-thread responsiveness are as important as parallel compute throughput.

With 48 MB of L3 cache, the processor delivers strong performance in high-concurrency environments where shared datasets must be accessed with minimal latency. In production environments, the 8362 performs exceptionally well in platforms such as Elasticsearch, Redis, in-memory analytics engines, API gateways and distributed microservice ecosystems that rely on cache locality and stable tail latency behavior.

Ice Lake-SP architecture significantly enhances the memory and I/O profile of the 8362. The eight-channel DDR4-3200 subsystem provides a substantial increase in bandwidth compared to Cascade Lake, improving performance across Spark analytics, vectorized database workloads, machine learning preprocessing pipelines, scientific simulations and complex virtualized deployments. PCIe 4.0 support with 64 lanes enables the processor to fully utilize modern NVMe storage, RDMA-capable NICs, SmartNICs, FPGA accelerators and GPU modules without I/O bottlenecks.

Security and virtualization capabilities are also improved. The 8362 includes hardware mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown, MDS, L1TF and related vulnerabilities. Support for Total Memory Encryption (TME), Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC) and advanced virtualization isolation features strengthens its suitability for multi-tenant cloud platforms and compliance-regulated enterprise environments.

With a 265 W TDP, the Xeon Platinum 8362 is optimized for high performance, and modern server platforms—including Dell PowerEdge R750, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2—are specifically engineered to sustain the thermal requirements of high-power Ice Lake processors, ensuring consistent turbo frequencies under sustained load.

In real-world datacenter environments, the Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 is widely used for virtualization clusters, Kubernetes and cloud-native orchestration platforms, enterprise SQL and distributed databases, analytics engines and HPC workloads that benefit from both strong frequency and large-scale parallelism. Its combination of core count, memory bandwidth, PCIe 4.0 capability and elevated base clock makes the 8362 one of the most capable and versatile processors in the Ice Lake Platinum family.