Marketing description

The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family provides 50 percent more cores and cache than the previous generation, along with faster memory and additional hardware enhancements for virtualization. These innovations deliver up to 50 percent higher performance on average over previous generation Intel Xeon processor-based servers across a broad range of benchmarks.
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family provides exceptionally fast data movement in dense virtual environments to increase server performance and accelerate network and storage communications.
With the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, you can protect your business more effectively using Intel Security Technologies that help to improve workload isolation, security policy enforcement, and data encryption.
Power and cooling costs continue to rise. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family offers up to 45 percent more energy efficiency over previous generation Intel Xeon processor-based servers. It can help you get more value out of every watt by optimizing performance versus energy consumption, not only for individual servers, but also for racks, rows, and entire data centers.

Key selling points

• Higher performance for peak workloads
• Up to 2x and higher performance gains for floating point operations
• New virtualization efficiencies
• Intel Integrated I/O for up to 2x higher bandwidth
• Putting data right where you need it - fast
• Better, faster data protection
• Hardened protection for virtual data centers and clouds

Product features

• Higher performance for peak workloads
  Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 automatically increases processor frequencies to take advantage of power and thermal headroom. This second-generation technology provides higher frequencies and greater intelligence so you enjoy faster performance and improved efficiency.
• Up to 2x and higher performance gains for floating point operations
  Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX) provides new instructions that can significantly improve performance for applications that rely on floating point or vector computations. The most recent enhancements speed 16/32-bit data conversions, which provide additional performance gains for select applications.
• New virtualization efficiencies
  Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller virtualization (APICv) takes the value of Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) to new heights. By eliminating up to 50 percent of virtual machine exits, it reduces virtualization overhead down to 4 percent CPU utilization to further improve performance and scalability.
• Intel Integrated I/O for up to 2x higher bandwidth
  PCI Express 3.0 lanes are integrated directly onto the processor die - up to 80 lanes per two-socket server. This technology has been shown to reduce I/O latency by up to 30 percent, and provides up to twice the bandwidth versus solutions based on the PCIe 2.0 specification. Additional optimizations for storage and technical computing include new support for x16 Non-Transparent Bridging and improved P2P bandwidth.
• Putting data right where you need it - fast
  Intel Data Direct I/O Technology enables direct data transfers from storage to cache. It increases I/O performance by up to 2.3 times and reduces memory access overheads.
• Better, faster data protection
  Intel Data Protection Technology includes Intel Secure Key, which generates high-quality security keys, and Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel AES-NI), which provides hardware assists to accelerate and improve encryption. In combination with software from leading vendors, such as Oracle, Microsoft, and McAfee, these technologies provide the foundation for secure online transactions and enterprise-wide data protection - all without sacrificing application performance.
• Hardened protection for virtual data centers and clouds
  Establish trusted pools of virtual resources, so you can maintain security and compliance more effectively in dynamic, multi-tenant environments. Intel Platform Protection Technology includes Intel Trusted Execution Technology, which ensures that your systems and hypervisors boot only into cryptographically verified "known good states," so they cannot be compromised during or prior to launch. It also includes OS Guard, which provides additional malware protection by preventing the execution of calls to the OS from compromised applications in the user mode or code pages.