Xeon Platinum supports 8-socket machines. 6x memory channels x 8-sockets == 48x DIMMs for your massive 6TB RAM servers.
Platinum is crazy priced for a crazy reason: its a building block to truly massive computers that only IBM matches. Supercomputers don't even typically use Platinum: Platinum is for the most vertically-oriented systems.
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Xeon Gold is your more typical 2-socket or 4-socket machines: same performance, but fewer sockets supported.
Platinum is crazy priced for a crazy reason: its a building block to truly massive computers that only IBM matches. Supercomputers don't even typically use Platinum: Platinum is for the most vertically-oriented systems.
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Xeon Gold is your more typical 2-socket or 4-socket machines: same performance, but fewer sockets supported.