Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218R

Description

Product Description: Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218R

The Intel Xeon Gold 5218R is a powerful, stable, and reliable 2nd generation Xeon Scalable server processor (Cascade Lake-SP architecture), designed for enterprise servers, virtualization, databases, cloud solutions, and heavy-duty workloads.

With 20 physical cores and 40 threads, a base frequency of 2.10 GHz and turbo boost capability up to 4.00 GHz, the Gold 5218R provides significant power reserves for both multi-threaded and frequency-intensive tasks.

The L3 cache size is 27.5 MB, which accelerates operations with large amounts of data, databases, caching, and virtual machines.

The processor supports a six-channel DDR4-2666/2933 ECC Registered/Load-Reduced memory controller, allowing for up to 1 TB of RAM per socket — critical for enterprise servers, databases, VM fabrics, and RAM-intensive workloads.

The Gold 5218R is designed for socket FCLGA3647and supports multiprocessor systems 2-socket (2S), enabling the creation of scalable server platforms.

With a TDP 125 W — Relatively moderate power consumption for a processor of this level, which is important for continuous server operation.

The Gold 5218R includes a full suite of Intel enterprise technologies: Hyper-Threading, VT-x / VT-d, EPT, AES-NI, AVX-512, Intel Resource Director (RDT), VMD — everything for security, virtualization, computing acceleration, and stable operation.

⭐ Advantages of the Intel Xeon Gold 5218R

• 20 cores / 40 threads — High parallelism, excellent for virtualization, containers, and multitasking.

• 2.10 GHz base / up to 4.00 GHz Turbo — balance between stable operation and performance under load.

• 27.5 MB L3 cache — acceleration of databases, caches, and heavy I/O tasks.

• Six-channel controller, up to 1 TB of RAM per socket — scalability and flexibility.

• Support for 2-socket systems (2S) — Scalability options, growing configurations.

• Enterprise features: VT-x / VT-d, AES-NI, AVX-512, RDT, VMD — For virtualization, security, AI/ML, and computing.

• TDP 125W — Reasonable thermal and power consumption at high power.

🎯 Recommended use cases

• Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)

• Enterprise databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL, SAP)

• Cloud platforms, SaaS, web/API services, microservices

• Computing clusters, HPC tasks, analytics, ML inference

• Large file/cloud storage, backup and backup systems

• Enterprise applications, ERP/CRM, heavy-load backend solutions