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The key advantages of Intel AVX are:

Performance - Intel AVX can accelerate application performance via data parallelism and scalable hardware infrastructure across existing and new application domains:

256-bit vector data sets can be processed up to twice the throughput of 128-bit data sets.

Application performance can scale up with number of hardware threads and number of cores.

Application domain can scale out with advanced platform interconnect fabrics, such as Intel QPI.

Power Efficiency - Intel AVX is extremely power efficient. Incremental power is insignificant when the instructions are unused or scarcely used. Combined with the high performance that it can deliver, applications that lend themselves heavily to using Intel AVX can be much more energy efficient and realize a higher performance-per-watt.

Extensibility - Intel AVX has built-in extensibility for the future vector extensions:

OS context management for vector-widths beyond 256 bits is streamlined.

Efficient instruction encoding allows unlimited functional enhancements:

Vector width support beyond 256 bits

256-bit Vector Integer processing

Additional computational and/or data manipulation primitives.

Compatibility - Intel AVX is backward compatible with previous ISA extensions including Intel® SSE4:

Existing Intel SSE applications/library can:

Run unmodified and benefit from processor enhancements

Recompile existing Intel SSE intrinsic using compilers that generate Intel AVX code

Inter-operate with library ported to Intel AVX

Applications compiled with Intel AVX can inter-operate with existing Intel SSE libraries.

3.8Intel® Dynamic Power Technology (Intel® DPT)

Intel® Dynamic Power Technology (Intel® DPT) (Memory Power Management) is a platform feature with the ability to transition memory components into various low power states based on workload requirements. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-1600/ E5-2600/E5-4600 product families platform supports Dynamic CKE (hardware assisted) and Memory Self Refresh (software assisted). For further details refer to the ACPI Specifications for Memory Power Management document.

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