Intel Xeon Gold 6132 Review

Explore the Xeon Gold 6132! This Server processor is a highlight in Intel's high-end range. Introduced in 2017, it has 14 cores and 28 threads. It operates at a base frequency of 2.6GHz, can hit up to 3.7GHz, and has a power consumption of 140W, ready to upgrade your gaming setup. The Xeon Gold 6132 is designed on the Skylake SP 14nm architecture and is a part of the respected Xeon Gold series.

The Intel Xeon Gold 6132 is an absolute monster, just like its 14 cores, 28 threads, and hefty price tag suggest. This is the top dog of mainstream processors, the king you've been waiting for. Games, video editing, 3D work – the Xeon Gold 6132 handles it all with ease. Bow down to the king!

Introducing the Xeon Gold 6132, the high-performance counterpart to the award-winning Xeon Gold 6130. Both are built on the same 14nm Skylake SP platform, but the Xeon Gold 6132 cranks the power up to a toasty 140W for those extra cores and threads. We're expecting big things from this one, just like its lower-powered sibling! 'sChoiceHype

The Xeon Gold 6132 sits just below the mighty Xeon Gold 6134 with its fancy 14nm compute die and beefy 8 cores and 16 threads. While the Xeon Gold 6134 might seem like the obvious winner, Intel has done some magic to keep the Xeon Gold 6132's single compute die design efficient. Plus, the higher TDP allows for more aggressive boost clocks. This means the Xeon Gold 6132 could actually compete with the Xeon Gold 6134 in some games – who knew?

We already went deep into the nitty-gritty details of the Skylake SP chip design in our reviews of the Intel Xeon Gold 6134 and Xeon Gold 6130. If you want to learn more about the Xeon Gold 6132's architecture (which is identical to the Xeon Gold 6130), head over there!

The high number of threads (over 7!) in the Intel Xeon Gold 6132 makes it a monster for tasks that use all the cores at once (multi-threaded workloads), especially for the price. If you edit a lot of videos or work with giant spreadsheets, the Xeon Gold 6132 will give you a noticeable performance boost.

For gamers, both the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X and Xeon Gold 6132 are great choices. They're neck and neck, with a slight edge to the AMD CPU if you don't overclock it. The Xeon Gold 6132's base performance can be achieved with cheaper RAM (around $90), whereas the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X needs faster RAM ($110-$120) to hit the frame rates we showed. The price difference is small though, and with anything less than an RTX 2070 or Vega 64 graphics card, your GPU will bottleneck your performance anyway. BottleneckAtPlay

The gaming tests with an RTX 2080 Ti were surprising! The budget-friendly Intel Xeon Gold 6132 (only 2111)managedtooutperformthemoreexpensiveRyzen Threadripper 2970WX(1299) in three games we tested. We know three games aren't everything, but it shows that even a 14 core CPU can still hold its own today. You can even play modern games and stream to Twitch on the Xeon Gold 6132 (playable results, not amazing). As games get more demanding, a 14 core CPU might not be ideal, but the Xeon Gold 6132 can hold its own for now in a pinch.

However, the Intel Xeon Gold 6132 falls a bit behind in clock speeds. The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX can reach 3GHz base clock and boost up to 4.2GHz.

Can you game on Intel's Xeon Gold CPU? Absolutely! We got a solid 82% score in our gaming benchmarks.

The Xeon Gold 6132 is a great choice for both gaming and content creation, thanks to its high performance (1.0292%) and at least 12 threads. Live streaming, eSports, and uploading gameplay videos are becoming increasingly popular, and this CPU can handle it all.