Intel Launches High Powered Xeon 7500 Series

Posted 03/31/2010 at 6:02am | by Paul Lilly

1

Comment

Print

Intel on Tuesday unveiled its fastest enterprise and high-performance computing chip ever as part of its new Xeon 7500 series. Based on the company's Nehalem architecture, Intel says the launch represents the largest performance leap in Intel Xeon processor history, with an average improvement of 3x across a range of benchmarks. To put it into perspective, the No. 1 chip makers claims data centers can replace 20 single-core servers with a single Xeon 7500 processor series-based system and never skip a beat.

"The Xeon 7500 brings mission critical capabilities to the mainstream by delivering the most significant leap in performance, scalability, and reliability ever seen from Intel," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel's data center group. "This combination will help users push to new levels of productivity, and accelerate the industry's migration away from proprietary architectures. We are democratizing high-end computing."

Intel says it managed to set over 20 new benchmarking world records, and it's not hard to see why. The 7500 series supports up to eight integrated cores and 16 threads, and can scale up to 32 cores and 64 threads per 4-chip platform, or 64 cores and 128 threads per 8-chip platform.

There are eight chips in the new series, culminating with the Xeon X7560 (2.26GHz, 24MB cache, 130W TDP).

Image Credit: Intel