45nm Hi-K Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 sequence workstations: for the most demanding expert users desiring maximized performance, improved performance per watt, and increased throughput.

Configuration details: The above chart compares 1-socket and 2-socket Quad-Core Intel processor-based workstation best measured or published 45nm performance scores as of April 14, 2008.

Manufacturing Working Differently benchmark:
1-socket: Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 (3.00 GHz, 12 MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB, 45nm) on an Intel® X38 Express Chipset internal reference system, 8 GB (4x 2 GB DDR3-1066 MHz ECC DIMMs, NVIDIA Quadro* FX 4600 768 MB PCI-Express* 16x graphics, 74 GB Western Digital* WD740GD SATA HDD 10K RPM, Microsoft Windows XP* Professional x64 SP1). Source: TR#783.

2-socket: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5482 (3.20 GHz, 12 MB L2 cache, 1600 MHz FSB, 45nm) on an Intel® 5400 Chipset internal reference system, 16 GB (8x 2 GB FBD-800 ECC Reg DIMMs, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 768 MB PCI-Express 16x graphics, 74 GB Western Digital WD740GB SATA HDD 10K RPM, Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 SP1). Source: TR#781.

SPECapc* 3ds Max* 9 Rendering Composite:
1-socket: http://www.spec.org/gwpg/apc.data/fujitsu-siemens/CELSIUS_M460_QX9650_FX3700/3dsmax9/result.html

2-socket: http://www.spec.org/gwpg/apc.data/Dell/T7400_XeonX5482_FX3700/3dsmax9/result.html

SPECfp*_rate_base2006:
1-socket: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q4/cpu2006-20071210-02882.html

2-socket: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q1/cpu2006-20071226-02920.html

SPECint*_rate_base2006:
1-socket: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q4/cpu2006-20071210-02862.html

2-socket: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q4/cpu2006-20071210-02868.html

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Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.

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