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Intel
XEON SUFFIX MEANINGS
4th Gen and 5th Gen processors use these suffixes:
- +: Includes 1 of each of the four accelerators: DSA, IAA, QAT, DLB
- H: Database and Analytics workloads
- M: Media Transcode workloads
- N: Network/5G/Edge workloads (High TPT / Low Latency)
- P: Cloud and IaaS workloads
- Q: Liquid cooling
- S: Storage & HCI workloads
- T: Long-life Use/High Tcase
- U: 1-socket only (some workload-specific SKUs may also be 1-socket)
- V: Cloud and SaaS workloads
- Y: SST-PP enabled (some workload-specific SKUs may also support SST-PP)
- Y+: SST-PP enabled and includes 1 of each of the accelerators
3rd Gen processors use these suffixes:
- H: 4-Socket capable processor supporting up to 1.125TB memory per processor
- HL: 4-Socket capable processor supporting up to 4.5TB memory per processor
- M: Media Processing optimized
- N: NFV optimized
- P: High frequency-optimized for IaaS virtualization customers
- Q: Optimized for liquid cooling
- S: Large (512GB) SGX Enclave size
- T: High Tcase
- U: Single socket
- V: High density/low power-optimized for SaaS virtualization customers
- Y: Speed Select
1st Gen and 2nd Gen processors use these suffixes:
- F: Integrated Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) Fabric
- L: Large memory tier (supports total memory up to 4.5TB per processor)
- M: Medium memory tier (supports total memory up to 2TB per Gen 2 processor or 1.5TB per Gen 1 processor)
- N: NFV optimized
- S: Search optimized
- T: High Tcase
- U: Single socket
- V: VM Density optimized
- Y: Speed Select
gen4: Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids"
gen3: Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake"
gen2R: gen Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake Refresh "
gen2: gen Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake"
gen1: Xeon Scalable "Sky Lake"
