The Heart of an Agile Data CenterIntel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v31 Product Family

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families are at the heart of your agile, efficient data center and meet your needs for compute, storage, and network.

These energy-efficient marvels are designed to deliver the best combination of performance, built-in capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. Whether addressing technical computing challenges, enabling cloud deployments, delivering intelligent storage or powering design automation and data analytics, enjoy better-than-ever performance.

Better safeguard your data and infrastructure with technology foundational for greater security. Break challenging data management performance bottlenecks with 40 gigabit Intel® Ethernet, DDR4 support and innovative storage features. And built-in capabilities that measure and monitor make Intel-powered platforms the smart choice for a software defined world.

The flexibility of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600/1600 v3 families. Versatile processers at the heart of today’s data center. You only have to remember one thing: It’s what’s inside that counts.

FEATURES	BENEFIT
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family	Versatile processors at the heart of your agile, efficient data center. As compared to a previous generation Intel® Xeon® processor-based server: • Up to 2.9x1,3,21 increase in performance • Up to 1.9x6,21 increase in performance with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) • Up to 1.7x4,21 increase in virtual machine density • Up to 1.4x7,21 increase in memory bandwidth with DDR4 • Up to 1.5x8,21 more cores & last-level cache
Haswell microarchitecture	Benefit from enhanced energy efficiency and performance • Intel’s industry-leading 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology
CPU portfolio breadth	Match workload performance to maximize total value • Choose from 55W/65W/85W/105W/120W/135W/145W/160W [workstation only] processor SKUs

FEATURES	BENEFIT
Intel® Node Manager 3.0 (Intel® NM) with power/thermal-aware scheduling (PTAS)	Host more and heavier workloads per server while guarding against server overheating • Dynamically monitor and limit server power consumption • Manage for thermal hot spots by understanding the thermal profile across your node, rack and datacenter (Rack Scale Architecture)

FEATURES	BENEFIT
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2.09 (Intel® AVX 2.0)	CPU instructions that increase performance by up to 1.9x6,21 • Accelerate floating point operations used in technical computing applications (ex. life sciences, engineering, data mining) • Improve compute-intensive performance (ex. high performance computing, professional imaging, feature detection) with Fused Multiply Add (FMA) • Accelerate integer vector operations used by storage workloads (incl. tiering and thin provisioning) • Provides instructions useful for compression and encryption
Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (Intel® ISA-L)	Address key storage needs with an algorithmic library that enhances efficiency, data integrity, and security/encryption • Optimized for Intel® Architecture • Offloads RAID calculations from the CPU with hardware RAID acceleration
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0	Get higher performance when you need it most • Accelerates processor performance for peak loads
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology	Fast performance for many demanding business applications • Thread-level parallelism benefits multi-threaded and concurrently running applications
Intel® QuickAssist Technology	Hardware acceleration for efficient cryptographic, pattern matching, and data compression performance • Provides a uniform means of communication between applications, accelerators, and acceleration technology.

FEATURES	BENEFIT
APICv (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller virtualization)	Improves virtualization performance • Reduces virtualization overhead for I/O bound workloads by eliminating many VMExits
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) for IA-32 and Intel® 64 (Intel® VT-x)	Delivers faster performance for core virtualization processes • Improves application performance, live migration, provisioning, dynamic load balancing, and disaster recovery
Intel® Virtualization Technology12 (Intel® VT) for Connectivity (Intel® VT-c)	Enhances network performance by adding networking virtualization offloads • Reinstates traditional Ethernet stateless offloads on encapsulated VXLAN and NGRE frames
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d)	Built-in hardware support for I/O virtualization • Improves I/O performance, increases system reliability, and provides enhanced memory protection
Cache Monitoring (virtualization performance improvement) NEW	Improves platform efficiency via greater insight into resource utilization • The processor assists to monitor last level cache space utilization per VM • Addresses ‘noisy neighbor’ issues that can occur in virtualized environments
Intel® Virtual Machine Control Structure (VMCS) shadowing NEW	Enables efficient nested virtualization usages with reduced overhead by eliminating majority of nesting-induced VM exits/entries. • Useful for usages & workloads that require ultra-high isolation, e.g. in finance

FEATURES	BENEFIT
Asynchronous DRAM Refresh	Helps protect data in memory
Support for Error-Correcting Code (ECC) memory	Improve data integrity and system reliability through automatic data correction
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 3.x (Intel® RSTe)	Provides uninterrupted operation and quick data recovery in the event of a hard drive failure • Supports latest server operating systems (OSs), including Red Hat and SuSE Linux OSs
Intel® Data Protection Technology (with Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions14 [AES-NI])	Encourage pervasive encryption by reducing the associated performance penalties
Intel® Data Protection Technology (with Secure Key)	Enhance security and performance for a wide range of security applications • Enables faster, higher-quality cryptographic keys and certificates
Intel® Platform Protection Technology (with BIOS Guard)	Better protect your system by increasing security against malware and denial of service (DoS) attacks
Intel® Platform Protection Technology (with OS Guard)	Improve security by strengthening malware protection • Provides hardware-based protection for your server operating system (ex. against privilege escalation attacks)
Intel® Platform Protection Technology (with Trusted Execution Technology [TXT])	Better protect your business by increasing security against many digital threats • Helps to ensure that the system launches into a ‘known good state’
Intel® Platform Protection Technology (with XD Bit)	Enhance security by reducing platform surface attacks • Helps to prevent execution of malicious code

FEATURES	BENEFIT
PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 ports	Extra capacity and flexibility for storage and networking connections • Up to double the I/O bandwidth of prior-generation PCIe 2.0
PCIe x16 Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) support	Improves clustering bandwidth for high-availability systems • Supports x16 non-transparent bridges for up to double the peak theoretical throughput compared to prior generation (x8 NTB)
PCIe atomic read modify write operation	HW-assisted operations to reduce CPU cycles to accelerate task completion
PCIe dual-cast	Maximize memory channel bandwidth with single write transaction to two targets • Allows Host IOC to write data directly to NTB and local memory
PCIe local peer-to-peer (P2P) reads	Improves communication between PCIe devices connected to a socket • Up to 5x read bandwidth improvement
Serial ATA 3.0 (SATA 3.0)	Provides faster data access, system startups, and application load times • Doubles data throughput versus previous generation for faster hard drive performance
Intel® Direct Data I/O Technology (Intel® DDIO)	Improves I/O performance by intelligently directing I/O packets to the processor cache, skipping main system memory
Intel® Integrated I/O	Integrates I/O controller into the processor • Improves I/O bandwidth through support for PCIe 3.0.
Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710	Delivers 40 Gigabit Intel® Ethernet (40GbE) • Intel® Ethernet Flow Director, an advance traffic steering capability, increases the number of transactions per sec. and reduces latency.