Product Collection
Intel® Xeon® 6
Vertical Segment
Server
Processor Number
6960P
Lithography
Intel 3
Recommended Customer Price
$13750.00

CPU Specifications

Total Cores
72
Total Threads
144
Max Turbo Frequency
3.9 GHz
Processor Base Frequency
2.7 GHz
Cache
432 MB
Intel® UPI Speed
24 GT/s
Max # of UPI Links
6
TDP
500 W

Intel® Speed Select Technology - Performance Profile (Intel® SST-PP)

ConfigActive CoresBase FrequencyTDPDescriptionMMID
6960P (0)722.70500
6960P (1)722.30400
6960P (2)662.60450
6960P (3)483.10450

Supplemental Information

Marketing Status
Launched
Launch Date
Q3'24

Memory Specifications

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)
3 TB
Memory Types
DDR5(6400MHz)
MRDIMM(8800MHz)
Maximum Memory Speed
8800 MHz
Max # of Memory Channels
12
ECC Memory Supported
Yes

Expansion Options

Scalability
2S
PCI Express Revision
5.0
Max # of PCI Express Lanes
96

Package Specifications

Sockets Supported
FCLGA7529
DTS Max
102 °C
TCASE
80

Advanced Technologies

Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT)
4 default devices
Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB)
4 default devices
Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA)
4 default devices
Intel® In-memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA)
4 default devices
Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Available
Yes
Intel® Volume Management Device (VMD)
Yes
Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)
Yes
Intel® Speed Select Technology – Core Power
Yes
Intel® Speed Select Technology – Turbo Frequency
Yes
Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) on CPU
Yes
Intel® Speed Select Technology - Performance Profile
Yes
Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency
Yes
Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT)
Yes
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
2.0
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
Yes
Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions
Yes
Intel® 64
Yes
Instruction Set Extensions
Intel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
# of AVX-512 FMA Units
2

Security & Reliability

Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX)
Yes
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Yes with Intel® SPS
Default Maximum Enclave Page Cache (EPC) Size for Intel® SGX
512 GB
Intel® Crypto Acceleration
Yes
Intel® QuickAssist Software Acceleration
Yes
Intel® Platform Firmware Resilience Support
Yes
Intel® Control-Flow Enforcement Technology
Yes
Intel® Total Memory Encryption - Multi Key
Yes
Intel® Total Memory Encryption
Yes
Intel® AES New Instructions
Yes
Intel® OS Guard
Yes
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology
Yes
Execute Disable Bit
Yes
Intel® Boot Guard
Yes
Intel® Run Sure Technology
Yes
Mode-based Execute Control (MBEC)
Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Yes
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
Yes