The Intel Xeon Platinum 8256 (BX806958256) has 4 cores, 8 threads and advance turbo boost technology that offers up to 4.5GHz turbo boost allowing it to deliver exceptional processing power for its primary operations running under 3.8GHz, hyper threading, latched at 4.5GHz. Its L3 Cache and DDR4-2933 memory enables this processor to support real-time analytics, financial modeling, low latency applications and other operations that require quick response times. The Gold Edition is superb for trading systems, database management and other enterprise applications that require ultra low latency. Its 16.5MB L3 Cache makes it a worthy adversary for the weakest link in LGA 3647 socket processors.