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Figure 9. Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processor
3.2.7 Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor
As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of
extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh
existing infrastructure with standard enterprise servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more
efficiently. The Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor automatically regulates power consumption and intelligently
adjusts server performance according to your application needs, both energy efficiency and performance. The
secret to this compelling combination is Intel‘s new 32nm Xeon microarchitecture. Featuring Intel Intelligent
Power Technology that automatically shifts the CPU and memory into the lowest available power state, while
delivering the performance you need, the Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor with Intel Micro-architecture Xeon
delivers the same performance as previous-generation servers but uses up to 30 percent less power. You can
achieve up to a 93 percent reduction in energy costs when consolidating your single-core infrastructure with a
new infrastructure built on Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor.
This groundbreaking intelligent server technology features:
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Intel‘s new 32nm Microarchitecture Xeon built with second-generation high-k and metal gate transistor
technology.
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Intelligent Performance that automatically optimizes performance to fit business and application
requirements and delivers up to 60 percent more performance per watt than Intel Xeon 5500 Series
Processor.
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Automated Energy Efficiency that scales energy usage to the workload to achieve optimal
performance/watt and with new 40 Watt options and lower power DDR3 memory, you can lower your
energy costs even further.
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Flexible virtualization that offers best-in-class performance and manageability in virtualized environments to
improve IT infrastructure and enable up to 15:1 consolidation over two socket, single-core servers. New
standard enterprise servers and workstations built with this new generation of Intel process technology