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Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, based on the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, offer leading performance and a significant improvement in energy-efficiency over their dual-core counterparts.

The benefits of energy efficiency
Decrease the number of servers you need, lower energy costs, and reduce cooling requirements with the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors:
  • Gain performance headroom, throughput, and scalability while decreasing overhead.
  • Lower power and cooling costs and improve server density.
  • Get more capacity out of your existing server room and simplify network administration and maintenance.

The role of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture
Intel Core microarchitecture builds computing headroom and performance with smaller footprint and power demands through power-conscious design features:
  • Intel® Intelligent Power Capability throttles power to the processor's execution cores, powering up only those components that are needed.
  • Intel® Advanced Smart Cache improves performance and efficiency by increasing the probability that each execution core can access data from cache.
  • Intel® Smart Memory Access increases performance by optimizing memory bandwidth and increases efficiency by improving out-of-order execution.

Energy-efficient products available today

Intel® Xeon® processor

Energy-efficient quad-core ›

  

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors deliver breakthrough energy-efficient performance to help businesses stay competitive:

 - Over 2x greater performance per watt¹ over previous generation dual-core

 - Build high-density solutions with the 50W low voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series, for 35% less processor power consumption at the same performance level as the standard quad-core versions.²

 - Get over 4x the performance of single-core Intel Xeon Processors from the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series, within the same power envelope.

 

Intel® Itanium® 2 processor

Energy-efficient dual-core ›

  

Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9000 series scales up performance while scaling down energy use for your most data-intensive workloads:

 - Get twice the performance of previous single-core Intel Itanium 2-based servers, while lowering energy requirements by up to 20 percent.³

 - Choose cost-effective Intel® standards-based architecture over RISC-based and mainframe systems.

 

Higher levels of performance
Get higher levels of performance while lowering your power and cooling costs, with the breakthrough energy-efficient performance of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors. Increasing performance per square foot makes best use of space and other resources in server rooms and data centers.

View performance-per-watt benchmarks for standard high-volume servers
¹ Intel internal performance measured comparing system configurations of Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor L7345, 50W to Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7110 and 7120 95W.

² Performance measured using SPECjbb*2005 comparing Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 2.33 GHz with single-core Intel Xeon processor 3.60 GHz. Actual performance may vary. See http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/ppw.htm.

³ Performance measured using Intel Internal Measurement (March, 2006) comparing Dual-Core Intel® Itanium 2 processor 1.6 GHz with Intel Itanium 2 processor 1.6. Actual performance may vary. See http://www.intel.com/performance/server/itanium2/ppw.htm.
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