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Intel

XEON SUFFIX MEANINGS

The different letter suffixes at the end of the Xeon processor names tell you a little about the chip’s features.

  • E: Embedded
  • H: Large memory support (up to 1.12 TB per socket)
  • HL: Large memory support (up to 4.5 TB)
  • L: Large memory support (up to 4.5 TB)
  • M: Medium memory support (up to 2 TB)
  • N: Networking specialized
  • P: Performance and power
  • R: Refresh (high performance)
  • S: Search optimized 1)
  • T: Thermal / long life cycle / low power
  • U: Uniprocessor
  • V: Virtual machine 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"

1)
The search-optimized SKU is mainly designed for cloud search applications. Those models are designed such that they have predictable performance and latencies. There is one new search-optimized SKUs. Those models are suffixed with an ‘S’.