Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family is at the heart of a flexible and efficient data center that meets your diverse needs. These engineering marvels are designed to deliver the best combination of performance, built-in capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. From virtualization and cloud computing to design automation or real-time financial transactions, you’ll be delighted by better than ever performance. I/O latency is dramatically reduced with Intel® Integrated I/O, which helps you to eliminate data bottlenecks, streamline your operations, and increase your agility. Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family—versatile processors at the heart of today’s data center.
Move up from 2-socket with enhanced performance
General purpose applications
Middle-tier operations
Virtualized data center
Optimized configurations
Energy efficient performance
Value options
Flexibility in technical computing
Technical compute applications
Financial services industry (FSI)
Life sciences
- Molecular quantum chemistry using GAMESS*
- Quantum chromo dynamic physics using MILC*
Numerical weather
Solve Harder Chemistry Problems Faster
The benchmark code GAMESS* (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) performs various ab-initio quantum chemistry simulations. See http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/GAMESS/GAMESS.html for more information.
GAMESS benchmark score: maximum geometric mean elapsed time in seconds (LOWER is better) of crown2DFT, crown2Freq, crown2MP2, and crown2SCF workloads.
Configuration Details: Molecular Quantum Chemistry Solutions Using GAMESS*
Zwischen offen/geschlossen umschaltenIntel internal testing, April 2012
Intel® Xeon® processor X5690 platform |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2680 platform |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4650 platform |
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Source |
Internal Testing (TR1218A) |
Internal Testing (TR1253) |
Internal Testing (TR1253) |
Number of cores / threads |
6/12 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
Processor speed |
3.46 GHz |
2.7 GHz |
2.7 GHz |
LLC cache |
12 MB |
20 MB |
20 MB |
Platform manufacturer |
Supermicro* X8DTN+ Platform |
Intel® Server Board S2600JF |
Intel ® Server Board S4600LH |
Platform BIOS |
4/19/2010 |
SE5C600.86B.99.99.2032 |
RMLCRB.86J.R0.50.D027.1202081028 |
System memory |
48GB (12x 4GB) |
32GB (8x 4GB) |
128 GB (16x 8GB) |
Memory speed |
DDR3-1333 |
DDR3-1600 |
DDR3-1600 |
Link speed |
6.4 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s QPI |
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Prefetcher |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
NUMA |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
Operating system |
Red Hat* EL5-U5with 2.6.18-194. kernel |
Red Hat* EL6-U1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 |
Red Hat* EL6-U1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 |
Additional information: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7


