Not to be outdone by the Core i7, Intel’s line of enterprise processors fielded its newest and most powerful offering ever to rise from its ranks, the Intel Xeon 7500 series.
Boasting the “biggest performance leap” in the series’ history, the new CPU promises never-before-seen improvements in reliability, security, virtualization, and overall performance.
Designed for “mission critical” applications, the Xeon 7560 sports 8 cores running a maximum of 16 threads of data at 2.66GHz. The Xeon 7542, on the other hand, sports 6 cores and 6 data threads running at 2.88GHz, a little weaker but it can still kick your home desktop PC’s butt with ease. Both CPUs are five times more powerful than their older-generation counterparts and are also 90% more energy efficient.
With such capabilities, investors can achieve a record-breaking estimated return on investment of just 8 months. Makes us wonder, though, how Intel can still make money with products that encourage their customers to buy less.
For speed junkies who are still unimpressed with those numbers, be prepared to pick your chin up from the floor when you find out that the Xeon 7500 series can work with up to 256 chips at a time. Yep, 256 number-crunching processors working simultaneously. That puts the grand total to an unfathomably massive 2048 cores at 4096 threads of computing power, making it Intel’s most scalable offering to date.
Enterprise-level computing, gotta love it. It’s like traveling through time without leaving the confines of your hot tub, the DeLorean, er, the present.
Source Intel
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