Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 48c/96t 2.1GHz-3.8GHz 350W (PK8071305072501)

Intel Xeon Platinum 8468: High-Density 48-Core CPU for Advanced Enterprise and Cloud Infrastructure

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 is a high-end Sapphire Rapids processor designed for dual-socket enterprise servers that require exceptional parallelism, massive memory bandwidth and robust multi-workload performance. With 48 cores, 96 threads, a 2.10 GHz base frequency and turbo speeds up to 3.80 GHz, the 8468 delivers the scalability and efficiency needed for large-scale virtualization, analytics and distributed computing environments.

As a Platinum-class CPU, the 8468 is optimized for multi-socket configurations, enabling systems with up to 96 cores and 192 threads across two processors. This design supports large-scale infrastructures such as cloud compute clusters, high-density virtualization platforms, enterprise databases, distributed analytics, HPC deployments and other environments where both memory and compute scale are critical to performance.

The processor’s eight-channel DDR5 memory subsystem offers significantly higher bandwidth than DDR4-based platforms, improving throughput for in-memory databases, big data analytics engines, real-time data processing, scientific simulation and workloads that involve large memory footprints. Its 105 MB L3 cache provides excellent data locality for multi-threaded and data-intensive operations.

With support for PCIe 5.0 and 80 lanes per CPU, the Xeon Platinum 8468 enables industry-leading I/O throughput. This allows integration of high-speed NVMe storage, 100/200/400 GbE networking, RDMA fabrics, SmartNIC or DPU accelerators, FPGA modules and GPU or AI hardware. In dual-socket systems, total available bandwidth increases further, making the 8468 ideal for hyperconverged infrastructure, storage-heavy deployments and modern cloud-native platforms.

The 8468 offers strong performance across a broad spectrum of workloads, including large virtualization clusters, analytics pipelines, distributed SQL and NoSQL databases, caching systems, microservice-based applications, message-processing backbones and HPC workloads. Its high turbo frequency ensures good responsiveness for control-plane services, orchestration layers and latency-sensitive backend components.

Sapphire Rapids also enhances security and reliability through hardware mitigations for side-channel vulnerabilities, Total Memory Encryption (TME), advanced virtualization extensions and enterprise-class platform technologies. These features make the processor suitable for multi-tenant cloud environments and organizations with strict security or compliance requirements.

With a 350 W TDP, robust thermal design is required, but the Xeon Platinum 8468 provides exceptional scalability, performance and future readiness for demanding enterprise deployments. For workloads that combine compute intensity, large memory consumption and extensive I/O use, the 8468 stands out as a high-performance and long-term solution.