Myth-Busting: Can Intel® Xeon® Processors Run Real AI Workloads?
AI performance isn’t just about accelerators anymore. Real-world workloads require versatility—processing video streams, running AI inference, powering dashboards, managing data pipelines, and more.
In a new study commissioned by Dell Technologies™, Scalers AI™ benchmarked the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R760 powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® DL Boost—and the results shattered the myth that CPUs can’t handle serious AI.
Key Findings
🔥 1.88× faster end-to-end performance on real AI applications
Scalers AI’s traffic safety solution—which includes inference, decoding, real-time analytics, and application services—ran 1.88× faster on the PowerEdge™ R760 vs the previous generation.
🚀 2.9× improvement in AI inference (image-based)
Intel® DL Boost + AMX delivered massive acceleration on Tiny YOLOv4 (INT8).
🎥 1.93× improvement on 1080p video decode + inference
Ideal for smart cities, retail analytics, manufacturing safety, and other computer vision workloads.