The Intel Xeon Gold 5512U has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 185W and a maximum operating temperature of 98 °C, setting the thermal parameters within which the processor functions in server environments. It is built on a 10 nm semiconductor process and supports 64-bit computing across its full feature set. The chip connects to the platform via PCIe 5, enabling high-bandwidth communication with compatible server hardware. Integrated graphics are not included, which is consistent with its intended use as a dedicated compute processor in managed data center deployments.
The processor operates across 28 cores at a base clock of 2.1 GHz, yielding 56 threads for concurrent task execution, with a clock multiplier of 21 governing its base frequency behavior. Turbo Boost version 2 allows the chip to reach up to 3.7 GHz under favorable thermal and power conditions, providing a meaningful step up from the base speed for workloads that benefit from higher per-core frequencies. The multiplier is locked and cannot be adjusted outside its factory-set configuration. Cache capacity stands at 52.5 MB of L3, allocated at 1.88 MB per core, offering a sizable low-latency buffer to reduce the frequency of slower main memory accesses during demanding workloads.
Memory support is built around DDR5 across eight channels, with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz and a peak bandwidth of 307.2 GB/s, enabling substantial data throughput for server workloads that place heavy demands on the memory subsystem. The platform accommodates up to 4000 GB of total memory, providing considerable headroom for applications that require large addressable memory pools. ECC memory support is included, allowing the system to detect and correct memory errors in operation — a standard requirement for enterprise deployments where data reliability is a priority.
The processor makes use of multithreading, enabling each physical core to work on multiple threads simultaneously and increasing throughput for parallel workloads. It also incorporates the NX bit, a hardware security feature that marks designated memory regions as non-executable, helping to defend against certain types of malicious code execution. The supported instruction sets — MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2 — cover a wide functional range, from hardware-accelerated encryption via AES to vectorized arithmetic through AVX2 and fused multiply-add operations through FMA3, making the chip capable of handling a variety of compute-intensive enterprise tasks at the instruction level.
In PassMark testing, the processor achieves a multi-threaded score of 60,347, reflecting its capacity to distribute workloads effectively across its 28 cores and 56 threads. Its single-threaded PassMark result of 3,027 indicates the level of per-core performance available for tasks that rely on sequential execution rather than parallelism, where individual core speed plays a more prominent role than total thread count.
