Dell M610 manual Performance Enhancements, Benefit

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook

Performance Enhancements

Intel Xeon® 5500 Series Processor (Nehalem-EP)

Frequency

Intel® Turbo Boost

Intel® Hyper-Threading

Technology

Technology

Increases performance by increasing processor

Increases performance for threading applications

frequency and enabling faster speeds when

delivering greater throughput and responsiveness

conditions allow

Normal

4C Turbo

<4C Turbo

Core 1

Core 1

Core 2

Core 3

0

1

2

3

0

1

Core

Core

Core

Core

Core

Core

All cores

All cores

Fewer cores

operate

operate

may operate

at rated

at higher

at even higher

frequency

frequency

frequencies

Higher performance

Higher performance

on demand

for threaded workloads

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

	TURBO Freq
Cores / Threads	BASE Freq	Benefit

Core Core Core 0Core 1

0Core1 Core Core 2Core 3

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16	3.20 GHz	up to 6%†
	2.93 GHz	for 16 concurrent
(2 socket/HT on)		software threads

OR

Core IDLE

Core 0IDLE 0

IDLE IDLE

IDLE IDLE

2	3.33 GHz	up to 10%
	2.93 GHz	for 2 software
(2 socket/HT on)		threads

Improves application responsiveness

Delivers higher processor frequency on demand

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