White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs

Responsive, energy-efficient intelligent performance

One of the key pain points in using older PCs is lack of performance – newer applications are not always responsive on older hardware. A new 2010 Intel Core i5 vPro processor can run business productivity applications up to 80% faster than a 3-year-old PC11. The new processors provide enough performance not just for today’s applications, but also for future, heavily-threaded OSs and applications (see Table 6). In addition, the all new Intel Core vPro processor family can help improve productivity by automatically and intelligently adjusting to each user’s needs. PC technology now adapts to your business – not the other way around.

Some of the performance and efficiency features of a new 2010 Intel Core i5 vPro processor include:

•Protect confidential data up to 3.5x faster.11

•Adaptable performance through new Intel Turbo Boost Technology.

•Up to 2x faster multitasking11.

•Up to 80 percent faster on business productivity applications11.

Energy Star compliance and energy efficient

The all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family is Energy Star complaint.39

These systems also take advantage of deeper processor sleep states and lower idle power. Intelligent power management allows idle cores to reduce their power consumption so that the system consumes only the power it needs based on actual user workload. For example, compared to a 3-year-old PC based on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400∆ processor, desktop PCs based on a new 2010 Intel Core i5 vPro processor are 30% more energy efficient.11

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Intel Turbo Boost Technology is an exciting new technology embedded in the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family. This is an intelligent allocation of extra processing power to match the workload of the applications that need it most. If the processor is operating below its maximum power, current, and temperature specifications, Intel Turbo Boost can accelerate the processor – up to 20% faster – to provide additional performance for an application that needs more compute power.

In essence, Intel Turbo Boost identifies work load versus processor specification levels, and automatically allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency. The maximum frequency of Intel Turbo Boost is dependent on the number of active cores in the processor. The amount of time the processor spends in the Intel Turbo Boost state depends on the workload and operating environment. With today’s compute-intensive applications, this is a key technology to helps improve productivity for both existing and future applications.

Table 6. Intelligent, energy-efficient performance.

 

 

 

 

 

Intel®

Advanced multi-

 

Select the right processor

 

 

 

Encryption support

Turbo

tasking via Intel®

Intel® vPro™

for the job

Processor delivers

Cores

Cache

with AES-NI8

Boost3

Hyper-Threading6

Technology1,4

Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™ Processor

Intelligent security,

4 Cores

Up to 8 MB

 

 

4 to 8 Threads

 

 

remote manageability, and

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ Processor

2 Cores

Up to 4 MB

 

 

4 Threads

 

adaptive performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor

Performance for everyday

2-4 Cores

Up to 8 MB

 

 

4 to 8 Threads

 

 

business applications

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel® Core™ i5 Processor

2 Cores

Up to 4 MB

 

 

4 Threads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel® Core™ i3 Processor

 

2 Cores

Up to 4 MB

 

 

4 Threads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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