Dell PowerEdge T320 - Processor; Processor Features; Supported Processors

16 PowerEdge T320 Technical Guide
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The Dell PowerEdge T320 features a variety of Intel processor options. The Intel Xeon processor
E5-2400 series 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, the T320 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
Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families offer:
 Up to eight execution cores per processor
 Intel Hyper-Threading technology for up to 16 computational threads
 Micro-architecture on 32 nm process for greater performance per watt
 Support for up to six DIMM slots, up to 32GB DIMMs for a total possible memory capacity of
192GB
 Integrated memory controller with three channels of DDR3 and 46-bit physical addressing
facilitate greater memory capacity
 Intel Integrated I/O support for up to 24 lanes of PCIe 3.0 links
 Faster connections throughout the system with support for 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
 High bandwidth, low latency, bidirectional ring interconnect allows faster access to the 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
 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
 Continued improvements to both Intel TXT and AES-NI help to better protect systems and data
Supported processors
Table 7 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge T320. For the latest information
on supported processors, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.