Dell PowerEdge T320 Technical Guide - Page 16

The Dell PowerEdge T320 features a variety of Intel processor options. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family offers an ideal combination of performance, dependability, and cost. These processors provide substantial performance and capacity for entry and mainstream workloads. In addition to providing raw performance gains, improved I/O is also made possible with Intel Integrated I/O, which can reduce latency by adding more lanes and doubling bandwidth. This helps to reduce network and storage bottlenecks, unleashing the processor's performance capabilities. In addition to the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, the T320 also supports the Intel Xeon E5-1410, which provide a balance of performance, value, and advanced features, and the Intel Pentium processor 1400 product family, which is cost-efficient and provides the basic features. Some of the features of these new Intel processors include:  Up to 8 execution cores per processor  Intel Hyper-Threading technology enables up to 16 computational threads  Micro-architecture on 32nm process for greater performance per watt  Support for up to 6 DIMM slots, up to 16GB DIMMs for a total possible memory capacity of 96GB  Integrated memory controller with 3 channels of DDR3 and 46-bit physical addressing facilitate greater memory capacity  Intel Integrated I/O has support for up to 24 lanes of PCIe 3.0 links  Faster connections throughout the system with support for DDR3 1600MT/s memory and 8.0GT/s QPI  Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO) allows I/O traffic to skip the main system memory and be directed straight to the processor cache, which can provide a significant reduction in latency as well as allowing memory to remain in a low-power state  High bandwidth, low latency, bidirectional ring interconnect allows faster access to the 20MB multi-banked last level cache  Intel Advanced Vector Extensions offer up to double the floating point operations per clock cycle by doubling the length of registers, which can be useful for addressing very complex problems or dealing with large-number calculations, which are integral to many technical, financial, and scientific computing problems  Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, which allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits, delivers up to double the boost than the previous generation  Continued improvements to both Intel TXT and AES-NI help to better protect systems and data Table 7 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge T320. For the latest information on supported processors, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.