OpenMetal Large v4 vs Large v5 Comparison

Q: What is the difference between the OpenMetal Large v4 and Large v5 bare metal servers?

The Large v5 replaces the Large v4 with Granite Rapids CPUs on Intel 3, a 14% higher base clock, 92% more total L3 cache, 23% faster DDR5-6400 memory, and a 10-bay chassis — while drawing 15% less power per socket.

Full Large v5 specs

Both servers share the same 32-core / 64-thread footprint and 12.8 TB Micron 7500 MAX NVMe baseline, but the Large v5 upgrades the CPU from the Xeon Gold 6526Y (Emerald Rapids, Intel 7, 2.8 GHz base, 225W TDP) to the Xeon 6517P (Granite Rapids, Intel 3, 3.2 GHz base, 190W TDP). The L3 cache nearly doubles from 75 MB total on the v4 to 144 MB total on the v5, which directly benefits workloads with larger working sets — PostgreSQL shared buffers, ClickHouse query state, and JIT-compiled query plans all see fewer DRAM round-trips.

Memory moves from DDR5-5200 to DDR5-6400 (23% bandwidth increase, ~819 GB/s aggregate across both sockets), and the inter-socket UPI fabric upgrades from 2 links at 16 GT/s to 3 links at 24 GT/s, a 125% increase in cross-socket bandwidth that benefits NUMA-aware workloads like multi-instance database hosting and dense virtualization. PCIe 5.0 is delivered through 88 lanes per processor (176 total) on the v5, giving more I/O headroom for NVMe expansion and accelerator pairing.

Public bandwidth increases from 4 Gbps to 6 Gbps per server. The chassis steps up from 6 drive bays to 10, leaving 8 open bays after the base 2x 6.4 TB NVMe configuration — enough room for storage-heavy deployments without moving to a Storage Server tier. Both generations support Intel TDX via 1 TB RAM upgrade, both ship with Intel SGX enabled by default, and both deploy in Ashburn, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Singapore.