White Paper Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family Performance

NOTES / SOURCES

1.See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html for more information on the Intel Xeon processor numbering.

2.See http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e7-8800-4800-2800-families-specification-update.pdf for more information on Intel Xeon processor E7 family identification information.

3.Additional Configurations via OEM-specific scaling technologies (up to 256-sockets)

4.Comparison based on best published Intel Xeon processor E7 results in a 2-, 4-, and 8-socket configuration using the SPECint*_rate_base2006 integer throughput benchmark that is often used as a proxy for general server application performance.

a.8-socket server: Hewlett-Packard ProLiant* DL980 G7 scoring 2070 baseline.

Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20110923-18595.html

b.4-socket server: Cisco UCS* C460 M2 scoring 1100 baseline.

Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q1/cpu2006-20111223-19278.html

c.2-socket server: IBM System x* 3690 X5 scoring 550 baseline.

Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q3/cpu2006-20120716-23707.html

5.Comparison based on Intel internal testing on Intel Xeon processor E7 family using SPECint*_rate_base2006 benchmark baseline scores. System Configuration: Intel® C606 Chipset based reference platform

(see http://www.qsscit.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=27&sid=125&id=126&qs=50 for details) supporting two each Intel Xeon processors E7-8870,E7-4870, and E7-2870 populated in sockets 0 and 1 with 128 GB memory (32x 4 GB DR DDR3-1066 RDIMMs), Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 6.2, Intel Compiler XE2012 (12.1) compiled binaries. Source: Intel internal TR#1326 October 2012. See Appendix for details.

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