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.

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