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

23

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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