Intel Xeon Platinum 8368Q 38c/76t 2.6GHz-3.7GHz 270W (CD8068904582803)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8368Q — High-Density Ice Lake CPU for Scalable HPC, Cloud Orchestration & Advanced Analytics

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8368Q belongs to the upper tier of the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable lineup and is designed for organizations that need high compute density, robust memory bandwidth and consistent multi-thread performance across distributed systems. With 38 cores and 76 threads, it provides a substantial throughput advantage for parallel applications, especially when deployed in multi-socket servers forming the backbone of HPC clusters, enterprise analytics platforms and large-scale virtualization environments.

The core architecture is based on Ice Lake’s 10 nm process, bringing noteworthy IPC improvements, stronger floating-point execution and an expanded AVX-512 instruction set. These enhancements directly benefit vector-heavy workloads such as scientific modeling, simulation kernels, machine-learning inference and real-time analytics frameworks. Across HPC workloads, the 8368Q delivers a balanced combination of per-core speed, wide parallelism and predictable latency — characteristics essential for achieving stable solver convergence and scaling across multi-node environments.

Memory performance is one of the defining strengths of this processor. With eight DDR4-3200 channels, it is well-suited for workloads with large memory footprints: FEA pipelines, CFD simulations, Monte-Carlo modeling, geospatial computation and dense data-engineering tasks all rely heavily on memory bandwidth and access regularity. Applications such as Spark, Dask, ClickHouse, Vertica, Presto and Hadoop ecosystems benefit from the processor’s ability to maintain high throughput even under sustained concurrency.

Support for PCIe 4.0 greatly expands the platform’s I/O capabilities. High-speed NVMe storage arrays, 200–400 GbE network adapters and compute accelerators (including FPGAs and AI offload cards) integrate seamlessly without saturating available lanes. This makes the 8368Q an optimal choice for hybrid CPU/GPU deployments and environments requiring high network throughput or accelerated computation.

The processor also delivers strong performance for cloud-native workloads. Kubernetes and OpenStack clusters benefit from the high core count per node, enabling denser container orchestration and improved pod scheduling efficiency. Virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi, Proxmox and Hyper-V also utilize the 8368Q’s balanced architecture to support high VM density with stable performance under unpredictable load patterns.

The Xeon Platinum 8368Q is most commonly selected for:

• HPC clusters performing large-scale simulation, modeling and numerical computation
• Data analytics engines working with heavy concurrency and real-time queries
• Cloud orchestration platforms with high container density
• AI/ML inference nodes with wide vector instruction usage
• Enterprise virtualization clusters requiring predictable performance scaling
• Scientific and engineering datasets that demand sustained memory bandwidth

Compared to models like the 8358P or 8360Y, the 8368Q provides a more compute-dense configuration with improved multi-thread scaling characteristics, making it particularly attractive for large parallel workloads that benefit from high per-node core counts.