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Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series 45nm Reference Guide 45NM QUAD-CORE INTEL® XEON® 5400 SERIES PROCESSORS: Featuring the Revolutionary 45nm enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture 45nm technology is expected to fuel ongoing performance advantages for years to come. It significantly increases transistor density over previous-generation Intel 65nm technology. 45nm Intel Xeon processor 5400 series: 820 million transistors Previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series: 582 million transistors More transistors means more capability, performance and energy efficiency from enhancements that include expanded power management capabilities, enhancements designed to reduce virtualization overhead and 47 new Intel® SSE4 instructions which can help improve the performance of media and HPC applications. Continued industry leadership in performance per watt • Up to 25% better performance than the previous-generation Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor1 • Up to 2x better performance than a Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor2 Superior energy efficiency • Up to 38% improvement in performance per watt vs. previous-generation quad-core3 • 3 GHz quad-core at 80W CUSTOMER QUALIFYING QUESTIONS How efficient are your current servers? The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series features exclusive Intel 45nm processor technology-freeing you to pack more performance into less space, multiply your server platform energy efficiency and potentially minimize cooling challenges. Could you benefit from greater server responsiveness? Features like a blazing-fast 1600 MHz front side bus, 12 MB Level 2 Cache, and a host of other innovations combine to enable exceptional performance and superior responsiveness for a broad range of computing needs and software environments. Are you evaluating virtualization? A suite of processor enhancements found on the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series assist virtualization software to deliver more efficient virtualization solutions and greater capabilities including 64-bit guest OS support. How important is reliability and investment protection? With nearly 40 million Intel processor-based servers deployed since 1996, plus a 30-year track record of delivering enterprise-class performance, Intel products deliver superior quality and reliability for business customers of all sizes. FEATURES and BENEFITS Multi-core Processing • 45nm technology boosts performance on a wide range of workloads • Increased headroom for multi-threaded applications and heavy multitasking scenarios • Helps boost system utilization through virtualization and application responsiveness • Platform-compatible with other Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors for ease of migration and IT stability Enhanced Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture • Boosts performance on multiple applications/user environments and data-demanding workloads, while enabling denser data center deployments through improved performance per watt • New 45nm Enhanced Intel® Core™microarchitecture delivers up to 38% more performance per watt in the same platforms and at the same system power level9 • Reduced idle processor power lowers average server power consumption Large 12 MB of on-die L2 Cache (2 x 6 MB) • Increases efficiency of L2 Cache-to-core data transfers, maximizing main memory to processor bandwidth • Reduces latency by storing larger data sets closer to the processor, reducing the number of trips to main memory • Up to 6 MB of L2 Cache can be allocated to one core Intel® Virtualization Technology10 (Intel® VT) Suite of processor enhancements assists virtualization software to deliver more efficient virtualization solutions and greater capabilities, including 64-bit guest OS support. Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) with Next-Generation Improvements Next-generation improvements designed to significantly accelerate data processing across the entire platform through CPU utilization and latency improvements. Enhanced Front-Side Bus (FSB) • New dedicated high-speed bus design enables increased throughput and bandwidth be- tween each of the processors and the chipset. • Supports blazing-fast FSB speeds up to 1666 MHz Intel® 64 Architecture11 • Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems