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Quad-Core for Servers

Second-generation Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series with 45nm quad-core technology offers you greater energy efficiency and the multitasking performance necessary to maximize your virtualization efforts with proven reliability.

Now you can run your high performing infrastructure applications on the ultimate solution for cooling and density challenges-all on the world's most popular server platform.

Quad-core server processors

View the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series

Offers second generation quad-core using 45nm technology with up to 3.16GHz and large 12MB L2 cache. Boost performance by up to 25 percent¹ in existing platforms using the same technologies, software and socket compatibility. Now with Intel® VT FlexMigration, your server virtualization farm can get the benefits of 5400 series performance with live VM migration to select existing and all future Intel Xeon processors.

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View the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series

Offers breakthrough performance, helps control operating costs, and alleviates datacenter cooling requirements. The 5300 series provides up to 1.5x performance boost over previous generation dual-core.² Now you can manage multiple servers as a single pool of resources with the most headroom and performance of any Intel two-processor general-purpose server.

View the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series

Offers leading scalable performance and best-in-class virtualization for server consolidation. The 7300 series provides huge leaps over previous generation dual-core: up to 2x scalable performance, 2.5x the virtualization performance boost³ and 3x greater performance per watt.◊

¹ Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor x5460 series delivers up to 25% (1.25x) higher performance when compared to Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5365 series as published/measured using SPECjbb2005* in October 2007.

² Performance measured using SPECjbb2005*, SPECjbb2005*/SysWatt, comparing a Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor E5345-based platform to a Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160-based platform.

³ Four Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X7350 Series (2.93GHz, 2x4MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus) delivers up to 2x higher scalable performance and 2.5x higher virtualization performance boost when compared to four Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7140M (3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache). As published/measured by SPECint*_rate_base2006 benchmark and vConsolidate benchmark result published on Virtual Iron 4.0 software in September 2007.

◊ Four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor E7340 Series (2.4GHz, 2x4MB L2 Cache) delivers up to 3x higher performance per watt when compared to four Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M (3.40 GHz, 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus). as published/measured by SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance/watt benchmark in September 2007.

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