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
- Performance per watt using SPECpower_ssj2008*
Value options
Flexibility in technical computing
Technical compute applications
Financial services industry (FSI)
Life sciences
Numerical weather
Density-optimized, high-volume transaction solutions for space-constrained data centers
With the rapid expansion of data comes the challenge of utilizing server resources to control the sprawl of racks. By embracing energy efficiency in areas such as system architecture, hardware provisioning, software design, and operations, organizations can reduce their IT budgets and respond more rapidly to demands for additional services, thereby improving their overall productivity and competitiveness.
Four-socket servers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family delivers up to 80% more Java* operations throughput as measured by SPECpower_ssj2008 ssj_ops* at 100% load without overstretching the socket power budget; making 4-socket Intel Xeon processor-based servers energy efficiency (performance per server watt) better than or near equivalent to the 2-socket options – all while allowing for peak traffic and future headroom growth.
SPEC* and the benchmark name SPECpower_ssj* are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
SPECpower_ssj2008* benchmark scores: overall ssj_ops/watt (HIGHER is better)
Configuration Details: Energy Efficient Performance Using SPECpower_ssj2008*
Toggle Open/ClosedUp to 80% more performance claim based on when fully loaded, 4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4640 provides 80% more performance and consumes about equivalent power per socket than 2-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2660. Intel Xeon processor E5-4640 scores: (5,029 overall ssj_ops/watt; 2,347,591 ssj_ops and 402W at 100% target load) vs. Intel Xeon processor E5-2660 scores: (5,088 overall ssj_ops/watt; 1,297,229 ssj_ops and 239W at 100% target load).
Best low voltage processor options (noted “L” in model number) demonstrate a 4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4650L advantage and overall top 2- and 4-socket results demonstrate near equivalent performance based on published results to SPEC.org as of July 23, 2012.
Intel® Xeon® Processor L5640-Based Platform |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2650L-Based Platform |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4650L-Based Platform |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4640-Based Platform |
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660-Based Platform |
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System |
Huawei RH2288* |
Huawei RH2288 V2* |
Dell PowerEdge* R820 |
Fujitsu PRIMERGY* RX500 S7 |
Huawei RH2288 V2* |
Number of processors |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
Number of cores / threads |
6/12 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
Processor speed |
2.26 GHz |
1.8 GHz |
2.6 GHz |
2.4 GHz |
2.2 GHz |
Last level cache |
12 MB |
20 MB |
20 MB |
20 MB |
20 MB |
Platform manufacturer |
Huawei Technologies Co., LTD |
Huawei Technologies Co., LTD |
Dell |
Fujitsu |
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd |
System memory |
16 GB (4x 4 GB 2Rx8 PC3L-10600E ECC) |
32 GB (4x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-10600E ECC) |
48 GB |
48 GB (12x 4 GB DDR3-12800R) |
16 GB (4x 4 GB DDR3-10600R ECC) |
Link speed |
6.4 GT/s QPI |
7.2 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s |
Operating system |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 SP2 |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1 |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition |
Source |
http://www.spec.org/ |
http://www.spec.org/ |
http://www.spec.org/ |
http://globalsp.ts.fujitsu.com |
http://www.spec.org/ |
SPECpower_ssj2008* is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class and multi-node class computers. With SPECpower_ssj2008, SPEC is defining server power measurement standards in the same way they have done for performance.
The drive to create the power and performance benchmark comes from the recognition that the IT industry, computer manufacturers, and governments are increasingly concerned with the energy use of servers. Currently, many vendors report some energy efficiency figures, but these are often not directly comparable due to differences in workload, configuration, test environment, etc. Development of this benchmark provides a means to measure power (at the AC input) in conjunction with a performance metric. This should help IT managers to consider power characteristics along with other selection criteria to increase the efficiency of data centers.
The initial benchmark addresses only one subset of server workloads: the performance of server side Java. It exercises the CPUs, caches, memory hierarchy and the scalability of shared memory processors (SMPs) as well as the implementations of the JVM* (Java* virtual machine), JIT (just-in-time) compiler, garbage collection, threads and some aspects of the operating system. The benchmark runs on a wide variety of operating systems and hardware architectures and should not require extensive client or storage infrastructure.
Additional information: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
