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BETTER TOGETHER: RECOMMEND THE BEST INTEL® XEON® PROCESSOR AND INTEL® CHIPSET
SEGMENT POSITIONING
RECOMMENDED PROCESSOR
SERIES
1
MAX.
SOCKETS PER
SYSTEM
NO. OF
CORES MAX. FREQ.
6
POWER INTEL
®
QPI (GT/S)
3
CACHE
RECOMMENDED
INTEL
®
CHIPSET
HPC
Optimized for high-performance ana-
lytics
Target usage: Bandwidth-intensive
applications, high-performance clusters,
and complex computation
Best Intel® Xeon® processor
E7 product family
Up to 8 Up to 10 2.66 GHz 95–130 W Up to 6.40 GT/s Up to 30 MB L3 Intel® 7500
Chipset
Better Intel® Xeon® processor
E5-2600 product family
2 Up to 8 3.10 GHz 60–150 W Up to 8 GT/s Up to 20 MB L3
shared
Intel® C600
Chipset
Good Intel® Xeon® processor
5600 series
2 Up to 6 3.46 GHz 40–130 W Up to 6.40 GT/s Up to 12 MB L3
shared
Intel® 5520
Chipset
WORKSTATION
Optimized for complex analysis / visu-
alization
Target usage: Graphics rendering,
multimedia content development,
engineering applications (CAD / CAM),
software development
Best Intel® Xeon® processor
E5-2600 product family
2 Up to 8 3.10 GHz 60–150 W Up to 8 GT/s Up to 20 MB L3
shared
Intel® C600
Chipset
Better Intel® Xeon® processor
E5-1600 product family
1 Up to 6 3.30 GHz 130 W N/A Up to 15 MB L3
shared
Intel® C600
Chipset
Good Intel® Xeon® processor
E3-1200 product family
with Intel® HD Graphics
capabilities
(Intel® Xeon® processor
E3-1225 / 1235 /
1245 / 1275)
1 4 3.40 GHz 95 W N/A Up to 8 MB
Intel® Smart
Cache
Intel® C206
Chipset