The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family provide 50 percent more cores and cache than the previous generation, along with faster memory and additional hardware enhancements for virtualization. These innovations deliver up to 35 percent higher performance on average over previous generation Intel Xeon processor-based servers across a broad range of benchmarks. Three key technologies offer particularly high value.
- Higher performance for peak workloads. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.03 automatically increases processor frequencies to take advantage of power and thermal headroom. This second-generation technology provides higher frequencies and greater intelligence so you enjoy faster performance and improved efficiency.
- Up to 2x and higher performance gains for floating point operations.+,4 Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) provides new instructions that can significantly improve+,5 performance for applications that rely on floating point or vector computations. The most recent enhancements speed 16/32-bit data conversions, which provide additional performance gains for select applications.
- New virtualization efficiencies. Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller virtualization (APICv) takes the value of Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) to new heights. By eliminating up to 50 percent of virtual machine exits, it reduces virtualization overhead to 4 percent CPU utilization.+,6 to further improve performance and scalability.