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"