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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Product Family

General purpose computing performance

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Product Family

The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product 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, energy efficiency, 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 and energy efficiency. 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. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family—versatile processors at the heart of today’s data center.

General purpose computing performance

SPEC CPU2006*

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Floating Point Speed Performance Using SPECfp*_base2006

CPU2006* is SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem, and compiler. SPEC designed CPU2006 to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware, using workloads developed from real user applications. These benchmarks are provided as source code and require the user to be comfortable using compiler commands as well as other commands via a command interpreter using a console or command prompt window in order to generate executable binaries. SPEC and the benchmark names SPECint* and SPECfp* are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

Floating point speed performance using SPECfp*_base2006

Best publications submitted to SPEC as of August 20, 2012. 

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Intel® Xeon® Processor X5687-Based Platform
 Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690-Based Platform

System

SGI Rackable* C2005-TY3

Huawei RH2288 V2*

Number of processors

2

2

Number of cores / threads

4/8 per processor

8/16 per processor

Processor speed

3.60 GHz

2.9 GHz

Last level cache

12 MB

20 MB

Platform manufacturer

SGI

Huawei*

System memory

48 GB

 128 GB

Link speed

6.4 GT/s QPI

8.0 GT/s QPI

Operating system

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 11 SP1

 Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2
Source

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q3/cpu2006-20110824-18452.html

 http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q2/cpu2006-20120604-22559.html

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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.