Intel Xeon Gold 6430

The Intel Xeon Gold 6430 is a Sapphire Rapids processor for socket LGA4677, used in HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers. It has 32 physical cores and 64 threads, starts at a 2.1 GHz base clock and boosts to 3.4 GHz under light load. It carries 60 MB of L3 cache and a 270 W thermal design power. DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and on-die accelerators (AMX for AI, QAT for crypto and compression). For new workloads on new hardware. Two things to check before ordering. First, in a dual-socket configuration both sockets must hold the identical model — a server with two different SKUs will not post. Second, anything above 135 W needs the high-performance heatsink and fan kit; with the standard heatsink the server throttles itself and you never get the performance you paid for. Every processor is booted and tested on the same server generation before it ships.