14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has finally made the official launch of the Xeon E5-2600 server processors and, now, we will take a look at the fabled performance per watt and what enables it.
We already know that the overall prowess has gone up by 80% compared to Xeon 5600 chips.
We now get to learn that the energy efficiency has received a boost as well, of as much as 50%, as the above slide shows.
Intel's Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, which can both power up and power down one or more cores, depending on needs, is one element that led to this.
The other primary ones are Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel Virtualization Technology.
The company wasn't satisfied with just this, though, so it tossed in the Intel Advanced Vector Extension (Intel AVX), which optimizes financial analysis, content creation and high-performance computing (HPC / supercomputers) by up to 2 times.
The same goes for any other compute-intensive applications.
Finally, Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager let IT managers monitor and control power usage.