Processor; Processor Features; Supported Processors - Dell PowerEdge R320 Technical Manual

4 Processor

The Dell PowerEdge R320 features a variety of Intel processor options. The Intel Xeon processor
E5- 2400 product family offers an ideal combination of performance, dependability, and cost. These
processors provide substantial performance and capacity for entry and mainstream workloads. In
addition to providing raw performance gains, improved I/O is also made possible with Intel
Integrated I/O, which can reduce latency by adding more lanes and doubling bandwidth. This helps
to reduce network and storage bottlenecks, unleashing the processor's performance capabilities.
In addition to the Intel Xeon processor E5- 2400 product family, the R320 also supports the Intel
Xeon E5- 1410, which provide a balance of performance, value, and advanced features, and the Intel
Pentium processor 1400 product family, which is cost- efficient and provides the basic features.

Processor features

The new Intel processors provide the following features:
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Up to 8 execution cores per processor
• Intel Hyper- Threading technology enables up to 16 computational threads
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Micro- architecture on 32nm process for greater performance per watt
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Support for more memory— up to 6 DIMM slots and support for up to 32GB DIMMs increasing
the memory capacity from 32GB to 192GB
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Integrated memory controller with 3 channels of DDR3 and 46- bit physical addressing facilitate
greater memory capacity
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Up to 24 PCIe 3.0 links capable of 8.0 GT/s
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Faster connections throughout the system with support for up to DDR3 1600MT/s memory and
8.0GT/s QPI
• Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO) allows I/O traffic to skip the main system memory and be directed
straight to the processor cache, which can provide a significant reduction in latency as well as
allowing memory to remain in a low- power state
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High bandwidth, low latency, bidirectional ring interconnect allows faster access to up to 20MB
multi- banked last level cache
• Intel Advanced Vector Extensions offer up to double the floating point operations per clock
cycle by doubling the length of registers, which can be useful for addressing very complex
problems or dealing with large- number calculations, which are integral to many technical,
financial, and scientific computing problems
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Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, which allows processor cores to run faster than the base
operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits,
delivers up to double the boost than the previous generation
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Continued improvements to both Intel TXT and AES- NI help to better protect systems and data
For more information on the Intel Xeon processor E5- 2400 product family, visit Intel.com.

Supported processors

Table 6 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge R320. For the latest information
on supported processors, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.
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