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Xeon Gold 5122

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Release date ≈ Q1 2018.

Average Bench: 75% (306th of 1442)

Based on 147 user benchmarks.  Device: BFEBFBFF00050654 Model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5122 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Poor: 67%Average: 75% Great: 82%
Gaming
Gaming 75%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 63%
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Good average bench

The Intel Xeon Gold 5122 averaged 25.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Memory Latency 75.7Pts
Avg. Single Core Speed 111Pts

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Intel Xeon Gold 5122 is just 15%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Intel Xeon Gold 5122 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Speed 614Pts
Avg. Octa Core Speed 606Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 147 samples)
Rank 30675%
Min Avg Max
68.5 Memory 75.7 80.3
86.3 1-Core 111 118
182 2-Core 216 236
74.9% 134 Pts
Min Avg Max
336 4-Core 401 468
466 8-Core 606 655
62.6% 504 Pts
Min Avg Max
498 64-Core 614 653
38% 614 Pts
User Benchmarks BenchNormalHeavyServer
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
CPU, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
75.1% Very good
Memory 79.3
1-Core 112
2-Core 214
76% 135 Pts
4-Core 382
8-Core 601
61% 491 Pts
64-Core 602
37% 602 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
72.4% Very good
Memory 77.8
1-Core 113
2-Core 196
74% 129 Pts
4-Core 361
8-Core 547
56% 454 Pts
64-Core 569
35% 569 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg)
71% Very good
Memory 76
1-Core 108
2-Core 196
72% 127 Pts
4-Core 356
8-Core 550
56% 453 Pts
64-Core 550
34% 550 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
70.8% Very good
Memory 77.2
1-Core 109
2-Core 207
74% 131 Pts
4-Core 347
8-Core 530
54% 438 Pts
64-Core 550
34% 550 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
70% Good
Memory 72.6
1-Core 82.3
2-Core 182
64% 112 Pts
4-Core 363
8-Core 574
58% 468 Pts
64-Core 579
36% 579 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg)
67.5% Good
Memory 72.5
1-Core 113
2-Core 212
74% 132 Pts
4-Core 337
8-Core 518
53% 428 Pts
64-Core 552
34% 552 Pts
CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
61.5% Good
Memory 71.3
1-Core 88.7
2-Core 164
62% 108 Pts
4-Core 283
8-Core 381
42% 332 Pts
64-Core 428
26% 428 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 67,761,689 CPUs tested

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Gaming
Gaming 54%
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Desktop
Desktop 83%
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Workstation
Workstation 47%
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System: HP Z6 G4 Workstation

CPU
Xeon Gold 5122IntelBench 75%, 147 samples1x
GPU
Quadro P4000NvidiaBench 67%, 12,628 samples92x
Quadro P2000NvidiaBench 41%, 13,958 samples48x
Quadro RTX 4000NvidiaBench 98%, 9,173 samples43x
SSD
MZVLB512HAJQ-000H2 512GBSamsungBench 240%, 2,013 samples24x
MZVLB1T0HBLR-000H1 1TBSamsungBench 264%, 8,018 samples21x
MZVLB512HBJQ-000H1 512GBSamsungBench 240%, 17,828 samples20x
RAM
M393A2K40BB2-CTD 2x16GBSamsungBench 57%, 231 samples18x
M393A1K43BB1-CTD 4x8GBSamsungBench 81%, 410 samples14x
HMA82GR7AFR4N-VK 4x16GBHynixBench 94%, 150 samples12x
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