Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 38c/76t 2.4GHz-3.4GHz 270W (CD8068904572001)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8368: High-Core 38-Core Processor for HPC Clusters, Virtualization and Large-Scale Analytics

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 is one of the most powerful processors in the Ice Lake-SP lineup, designed for heavy multi-threaded workloads, HPC environments, distributed analytics platforms and large-scale virtualization clusters. With 38 cores, 76 threads, a 2.4 GHz base frequency and turbo speeds up to 3.4 GHz, the 8368 delivers exceptional parallel throughput while maintaining strong performance per watt for dense compute deployments.

As part of the Ice Lake Platinum tier, the 8368 is optimized for dual-socket (2S) enterprise servers, enabling combined configurations of 76 cores and 152 threads. Multi-socket deployments leverage its strong NUMA characteristics, making the processor ideal for virtualization clusters, cloud service nodes, large-scale analytics systems and distributed storage platforms that depend on high concurrency and predictable scaling.

The Xeon Platinum 8368 features 57 MB of L3 cache—one of the highest cache capacities among Ice Lake-SP CPUs. This expanded cache footprint significantly improves performance in workloads with large working sets, high thread counts and frequent shared-data operations. Scientific simulations, vectorized analytics pipelines, distributed SQL/NoSQL databases, search infrastructure and microservice-dense deployments all benefit from the increased cache locality.

Ice Lake’s eight-channel DDR4-3200 memory architecture provides a major performance uplift compared to Cascade Lake, delivering higher sustained bandwidth for memory-intensive operations such as Spark analytics, ML preprocessing, real-time data pipelines, HPC kernels and large-scale virtualized environments. Support for up to 6 TB of RAM per socket further enhances suitability for in-memory analytics and enterprise compute platforms requiring massive memory footprints.

With 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes, the 8368 enables modern datacenter designs integrating high-speed NVMe storage fabrics, RDMA-capable networking (RoCE, InfiniBand), SmartNIC offloading, FPGA accelerators and GPU compute modules. PCIe 4.0 effectively doubles available I/O bandwidth compared to PCIe 3.0, eliminating common bottlenecks in I/O-intensive enterprise and HPC workloads.

Security and virtualization capabilities are also strengthened. The Platinum 8368 integrates hardware-level mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown, MDS and L1TF, while supporting Total Memory Encryption (TME), Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC) and enhanced virtualization isolation. These features make it a strong choice for multi-tenant cloud environments and compliance-driven enterprises that require deterministic and secure performance.

With a 270 W TDP, this processor targets high-performance servers equipped with robust thermal solutions. Modern 2U and 4U platforms—such as Dell PowerEdge R750, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2 and Supermicro systems—are engineered specifically to maintain stable turbo performance for high-power Ice Lake CPUs under sustained load.

In real-world deployments, the Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 excels in virtualization clusters (VMware, Proxmox, RHV), distributed SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud-native analytics engines, HPC workloads requiring large core counts, AI/ML preprocessing pipelines, OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure and dense multi-socket compute nodes. Its combination of 38 cores, large cache capacity, PCIe 4.0 support and strong multi-socket scalability makes it one of the most capable high-core-count CPUs in the Ice Lake Platinum family.