HP Z440 Technical White Paper

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Technical white paper | HP Z440 Workstation
Quiet and reliable
Acoustic performance is essential to HP and our customers because a noisy environment increases user fatigue and
reduces productivity. HP has extended its leadership in this area with the new HP Z440. With the additional performance
and capabilities, one might expect the HP Z440 to be louder than its predecessor. However, through innovations in
engineering, the HP Z440 Workstation performs signicantly quieter than the HP Z420. Fans are strategically placed to
provide optimum system cooling, and by using advanced algorithms to control fan speeds based on system conguration
and key component temperatures the HP Z440 delivers an extremely quiet and reliable system.
While low acoustics, thermal management, expandability, and performance are all high priorities—it is essential that
the system reliably withstands extreme conditions and workloads. Rigorous climatic and dynamic testing help ensure
that HP Workstations are highly reliable in a wide variety of demanding conditions, while delivering uncompromising
performance.
Designed with the environment in mind
HP is committed to environmental sustainability and energy eciency. To reduce energy consumption, HP Workstations
oer ENERGY STAR® qualied congurations with the choice of a 90% ecient 700 W power supply or 85% ecient
525 W power supply. The HP Workstation design team has taken a proactive approach (beyond industry regulations) to
recyclability and selecting materials that reduce the risk to the environment. HP Z440 congurations are available with
low-halogen ame retardant materials.
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System architecture
The HP Z440 is the successor to the HP Z420 personal workstation. Its
architecture introduces several new functionalities and technologies. These
include DDR4 memory architecture, Intel®-integrated USB 3.0, I/O slot
improvements and better performance.
New Technologies
New Intel® Processor micro-architecture
The HP Z440 Workstation uses the Intel® C612 chipset to support the latest up to eight-core Intel® Xeon® E5-1600 and
E5-2600 processor series (Haswell, 22 nm), including processors of up to 140W. Intel® Haswell processors feature a
new micro-architecture and a new instruction set including AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0) and FMA (Floating-
point fused Multiply Add instructions) that help deliver faster compute performance, with low energy consumption. The
integrated 4-channel DDR4 memory controller helps to increase peak data transfer and bandwidth over the HP Z420.
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 (Intel® AVX2)
The new Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 (Intel® AVX2) extends the Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX)
with 256-bit integer instructions, oating-point fused multiply add (FMA) instructions, and gather operations. The 256-
bit integer vectors benet math, codec, image, and digital signal processing software. FMA can improve performance
in face detection, professional imaging, and high performance computing. Gather operations increase vectorization
opportunities for many applications. In addition to the vector extensions, this generation of Intel® processors adds new
bit manipulation instructions useful in compression, encryption, and general purpose software.
Intel® Data Protection Technology with AES-NI (Intel® AES-NI)
The Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) are a set of Single Instruction Multiple Data
(SIMD) instructions that enable fast and secure data encryption and decryption based on the Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES). Intel® AES-NI is valuable for a wide range of cryptographic applications, such as applications that perform
bulk encryption/decryption, authentication, random number generation, and authenticated encryption. AES is broadly
accepted as the standard for both government and industry applications, and is widely deployed in various protocols.

HP Z440 Specifications

General

Tcase	66.2 °C
Bus type	QPI
Stepping	R2
FSB Parity	No
Processor cache	10 MB
Processor cores	4
Processor model	E5-1620V3
System bus rate	0 GT/s
Processor series	Intel Xeon E5-1600 v3
Processor socket	LGA 2011-v3
Processor threads	8
Processor codename	Haswell
Number of QPI links	0
Processor frequency	3.5 GHz
Processor cache type	Smart Cache
Processor lithography	22 nm
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Processor front side bus	- MHz
PCI Express slots version	3.0
Processor boost frequency	3.6 GHz
Processor operating modes	64-bit
ECC supported by processor	Yes
PCI Express configurations	1x4, 1x8, 1x16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 W
Number of processors installed	1
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes	40
Memory types supported by processor	DDR4-SDRAM
Memory clock speeds supported by processor	1333, 1600, 1866, 2133 MHz
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)	68 GB/s
Maximum internal memory supported by processor	768 GB
Memory slots	8x DIMM
Internal memory	16 GB
Memory channels	Quad-channel
Memory clock speed	2133 MHz
Maximum internal memory	128 GB
Memory layout (slots x size)	2 x 8 GB
SSD capacity	The Solid State Drive's storage capacity in Gigabytes.
SSD interface	PCI Express
Storage media	SSD
Optical drive type	DVD Super Multi
Total storage capacity	256 GB
BD interface type	SATA
Discrete graphics card model	Not available
Recovery operating system	Windows 8.1 Pro
Operating system installed	Windows 7 Professional
Cabling technology	10/100/1000Base-T(X)
Ethernet LAN data rates	10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
PS/2 ports quantity	2
USB 2.0 ports quantity	5
Chassis type	Mini Tower
Product color	Black
Country of origin	China
Audio system	HD
Product type	Workstation
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C612
Scalability	1S
Processor code	SR20P
Processor ARK ID	82763
Intel TSX-NI version	0.00
Processor package size	52.5 x 45.0 mm
Supported instruction sets	AVX 2.0
Intel Identity Protection Technology version	1.00
Intel® Small Business Advantage (Intel® SBA)	-
Power supply	700 W
Sustainability certificates	ENERGY STAR

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	445 mm
Width	169 mm
Height	432 mm
Weight	11000 g