The Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 is not the Xeon Scalable family’s most glorified member. At the same time, it fills an important niche: lighting a platform inexpensively. Benchmarking the Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 is a somewhat strange endeavor. If you want maximum performance, the Xeon Bronze series is not where you should be looking. Instead, we are going to approach this exercise to answer whether it is worth spending $100 more or $100 less on moving up or down one SKU in the stack. We are also going to pull in figures from older generations and products like the Xeon D and Atom series. If you are looking for a machine to connect four hard drives and have 10GbE, Intel Xeon Scalable will use more power but have more expansion options.