Boost Performance with 45nm
Quad-Core Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processors
Since early 2006, multi-core Intel® processor-based servers have provided breakthrough performance
and energy efciency for organizations of all sizes, to help support an efcient, scalable, and exible
infrastructure. Now, the newest quad-core processors, built with Intel’s high-performance, energy-
efcient 45nm manufacturing technology, deliver up to 25% more performance than today’s leading
quad-core Intel processors.
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Offered in the same stable technology platform you rely on for the broad-
est range of business needs today.
Built on the enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400
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series-based platforms are ideal for dense computing environments where exceptional performance
and performance-per-watt are key requirements. Supported by the Intel® 5000 chipset family and
high-performing Front-Side Busses (FSB), Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series-based servers
are expected to deliver improved performance with better power efciency, providing up to a 38%
performance-per-watt improvement over previous-generation processors.
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Enhanced Flexibility and Performance with
Intel® Virtualization Technology
Intel® Virtualization Technology
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(Intel® VT) offers enhanced exibility and performance. A new
feature called Intel® VT FlexMigration,
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enables you to build one compatible virtualization pool and
conduct live VM migration across all Intel Core microarchitecture-based servers, including the new
Intel Xeon processor 5400 series, giving you the power to choose the right server platform to best
optimize performance, cost, power and reliability. In addition, a new processor extension, Intel® VT
FlexPriority, optimizes virtualization software efciency by improving interrupt handling.
Sales Brief
Mainstream Server
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®
Processor 5400 Series
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400
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Series: Build Success into
Your Business
Performance
• Up to 25% better performance
than Quad-Core
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• Up to 2x better performance
than Dual-Core
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• Up to 5x increased performance
over Single-Core
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Energy Efciency
• Up to 38% performance per watt
• 3 GHz Quad-Core at 80 W
• Lower idle power reduces
system power
Reliability
• Intel-based servers have been a
foundation of business technology
for nearly 30 years and are built
with more reliability features than
completive alternatives
Performance Comparison for Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series
(Comparing Integer performance using SPECint*_rate_base2006 on 64-Bit Linux*)
Single-Core 64-bit
Intel® Xeon® processor
3.8 GHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon®
processor 5100 Series
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®
processor 5300 Series
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®
processor 5400 Series
For more information on the Intel® Xeon® processor,
visit www.intel.com/xeon