Dell POWEREDGE R515 - 5 Processors; Overview; Features

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PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide
5 Processors
5.1 Overview
The PowerEdge R515 uses the latest four-,six-, and eight-core offerings from the AMD Opteron™ 4000 series.
5.2 Features
Key features of the 4100 series processor:
 Performance for blades and cost-effective DP servers
o Up to six cores per processor
o Up to 6M L3 Cache for 6-core processors (512 KB per core L2)
o Enhanced AMD power efficiency features:
 CoolCore™ Technology,
 Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™
 APML
o Demand-based switching for active processor power management, as well as support for ACPI
P-States and C-States
 C1E support
 AMD CoolSpeed
o Dual-channel U/RDDR3 up to 1333 MT/s, ECC
o Up to 3 DIMMs per channel, 6 per processor (R415 supports to up 2 DIMMs per channel, 4 per
processor)
o Low voltage (LV) DIMM support (6-core processor only)
o Designed for thermally-constrained environments
o 45 nm process technology
o PCIe Gen 2 with up to 42 lanes with 9 controllers (SR5670)
o Single series for UP and DP platforms (enterprise scalability and features for 1P)
 New C32 socket infrastructure
o Lower power/thermal bands
o Dual 16-bit HT3 links, up to 6.4 GT/s per link
o Workload-optimized platforms (SR5670 chipset for expandable SMB)
Key features of the 4200 series processor:
 Opteron 4200 performance designed for dual-processor servers
o Up to eight cores per processor
o Up to 8M L3 cache; 1M L2 per core
o 32nm process
 New top BIN processors at 95W TDP
 2 DDR3 memory channels, LRDIMM, RDIMM, UDIMM up to 1600 MT/s
 2 HyperTransport
TM
technology 3.0 links up to 6.4 GT/s
 Architechture optimized for performance/watt
o Core Performance Boost
 “Boost” frequency of cores when available power allows
 No idle core requirement
o Power efficiency enhancements
 Significantly reduced leakage power
 More aggressive dynamic power management