The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families deliver up to 80 percent higher performance than their predecessors. They provide more cores, cache, and memory capacity, along with bigger, faster communication pathways to move data more quickly.

Up to 80 Percent Higher Performance
Two key technologies deliver additional high-value performance boosts:

• Faster 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 gain even more performance when you need it, with greater energy efficiency.


• Up to 2x performance gains for floating point operations. Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX) providesnew instructions that can significantly improve performance for applications that rely on floating point or vector computations.

Eliminating Network Bottlenecks
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families open the floodgates for faster communications in dense virtual environments, both within the server and with external
network and storage devices.

• Intel Integrated I/O for up to 2x higher bandwidth. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 families are the first Intel Xeon processors to have PCI Express 3.0 integrated on the processor die. They reduce latency by up to 30 percent, provide up to 80 PCIe lanes per two-socket server, and support the PCIe 3.0 specification, which improves bandwidth by as much as 2x.


• Putting data right where you need it - fast. Intel Data Direct I/O Technology enables direct data transfers from storage to cache. It increases I/O performance by up to 2.3 times and reduces the need for performance-sapping memory accesses. Data flows faster to keep processor cores more productive and your applications more responsive.

Strengthening Security in the Enterprise - and the Cloud
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families provide a better foundation for protecting your business, especially when deploying sensitive applications on shared infrastructure.

• Faster, stronger, enterprise-wide data protection. Intel Advanced Encryption Standard – New Instructions (Intel AES-NI) accelerates and strengthens encryption to enable faster and more secure online transactions and improved data protection. By improving performance and reducing overhead, it allows you to implement encryption pervasively to protect your business using compatible software from leading vendors, such as Oracle, Microsoft, and McAfee.


• Hardened protection for virtual and cloud environments. Establish trusted pools of virtual resources with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT). Intel TXT ensures that physical servers and hypervisors boot only into cryptographically verified “known good states. It safeguards your business more effectively by protecting your platform from the insertion of malware during or prior to launch.

Driving Down Energy Costs at Every Level
Power and cooling costs have risen sharply, and now account for up to half of the operating
expenses in many data centers. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families help you get more value out of every watt by optimizing performance versus energy consumption, not only for individual servers, but also for racks, rows, and entire data centers.

• Automated control of server power. Intel Node Manager lets you monitor and control server power and set maximum limits for each server. You can use it to increase rack densities, adjust cooling based on actual demand, improve business continuity, and dynamically balance resources to accomplish more while spending less.


• Power optimization across your data center. Intel Data Center Manager plugs into existing management frameworks to enable power and thermal monitoring and management for individual servers and groups of servers. With this tool, you gain unprecedented insight and control over power, cooling, and performance throughout your data center.