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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family

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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family

Customers have a choice of upgrading their existing infrastructure to newer traditional 2-socket servers to achieve a certain performance requirement, or upgrading to 4-socket servers to reduce the total number of servers deployed.  With the new Intel® Xeon® processors E5-4600 product family, customers can consolidate up to 2.5x more VMs by choosing 4-socket server deployments over the 2-socket servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series.

Move up from 2-socket with enhanced performance

General purpose applications

Middle-tier operations

Virtualized data center

  • Data center infrastructure management using VMmark* 2

Optimized configurations

Energy efficient performance

Value options

Flexibility in technical computing

Technical compute applications

Financial services industry (FSI)

Life sciences

Numerical weather

Modernize and Virtualize Your Data Center for Reduced Operational Expenses

Virtualizing physical server images consolidated to a single physical server is common practice today in the IT world to help businesses achieve their goals and be flexible for future growth.  Server consolidation allows for higher utilization and efficiency in the data center by reducing costs and complexity while improving flexibility.

Four-socket servers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family using Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) deliver up to 2.5x more virtual machine application throughput as measured by the VMmark*2 benchmark compared to the prior generation 2-socket Intel Xeon processor X5690 options – all while maintaining application quality of service (QoS) and infrastructure management requirements.

VMmark 2 benchmark result: score at number of tiles (higher is better).

Modernize and Virtualize Your Data Center for Reduced Operational Expenses

Configuration Details: Virtualized Server Consolidation Performance Using VMmark* v2.1

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First comparison of 2-socket performance based on top matched pair VMmark*2 results using best published 2-socket Intel® Xeon® 5600 processors and 2-socket Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors.  Second comparison of 2-socket to 4-socket scalability based on comparing the VMmark*2 results using best published matched pair, 2-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family and 4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family as of July 23, 2012

 

Intel® Xeon® Processor X5690 Platform

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690-Based Platform

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4650-Based Platform

System

Fujitsu PRIMERGY* RX300 S6

HP ProLiant* DL360p G8

Fujitsu PRIMERGY* RX500 S7

Number of processors

2

2

4

Number of cores / threads

6/12 per processor

8/16 per processor

8/16 per processor

Processor speed

3.46 GHz

2.9 GHz

2.7 GHz

Last level cache

12 MB

20 MB

20 MB

Platform manufacturer

Fujitsu*

Hewlett-Packard*

Fujitsu*

System memory

96 GB DDR3-1333

256 GB DDR3-1600

512 GB DDR3-1600

Link speed

6.4 GT/s QPI

8.0 GT/s QPI

8.0 GT/s QPI

Hypervisor

VMware ESX* 4.1 U1

VMware ESX 4.1 U2

VMware ESX* 4.1 U2

Publication Date

10/18/2011

5/15/2012

7/10/2012

Source

http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/
vmmark/pdf/2011-10-18-Fujitsu-
RX300S6.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2012-05-15-HP-DL360pG8.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2012-06-13-Fujitsu-RX500S7.pdf

VMmark* is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments. VMmark enables users to:

  • Measure virtual datacenter performance accurately and reliably
  • View and compare the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms

VMware* VMmark* is a product of VMware, Inc. See http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/ for more information.

Additional information: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

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Product and Performance Information

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1. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations, and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.


2. 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.


3. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology: See the Processor Spec Finder at http://ark.intel.com or contact your Intel representative for more information.


4. Requires a system with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology and Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 are only available on select Intel® processors. Consult your PC manufacturer. Performance varies depending on hardware, software, and system configuration. For more information, visit www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html.


5. Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) requires a computer system with a processor supporting Intel HT Technology and an Intel HT Technology-enabled chipset, BIOS, and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software used. For more information including details on which processors support Intel HT Technology, visit www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/hyper-threading/hyper-threading-technology.html.


6. Intel® processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html for details.


7. Intel® products are not intended for use in medical, life-saving, life-sustaining, critical control, or safety systems, or in nuclear facility applications. All dates and products specified are for planning purposes only and are subject to change without notice.