Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors Meet the Demands of Today’s Data Centers
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Businesses rely on performant data center infrastructure to drive innovation. But for IT leaders, that performance must be balanced with strong security, energy efficiency, and manageability—a daunting task, given today’s increasingly diverse range of demanding workloads. Organizations need infrastructure with the performance and flexibility to handle everything from general storage and networking needs to high-performance computing (HPC), analytics, and AI.
With an innovative modular x86 architecture, the Intel Xeon 6 processor family allows data center architects to configure and deploy infrastructures that are purpose-built for unique needs and workloads across private, public, and hybrid clouds. To provide that versatility, Intel Xeon 6 processors allow for the choice of two different CPU microarchitectures: Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient cores (E-cores).
And with the latest product releases, the complete Intel Xeon 6 processor family is now available, with a full range of processor options that are built to meet a broad array of business needs, from high-density compute and scale-out workloads to AI-accelerated, high-performance multi-core computing, and everything in between.
Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores and E-cores
At one end of the workload spectrum, P-cores offer the best solution for compute intensive, vector-based workloads such as AI and HPC, whereas E-cores are best for task-parallel, scalar-based workloads such as microservices. Between these ranges, the two microarchitectures combine to allow for highly versatile and complementary solutions.
For example, systems powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores can help consolidate a data center’s footprint to make space for modern AI servers that make use of Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores. Data centers designed with a mix of Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores and with E-cores can take advantage of their platform commonality to transition workloads from one core type to the other depending on performance and power needs.
Intel Xeon 6 processors deliver new degrees of performance with more cores, a choice of microarchitecture, additional memory bandwidth, and exceptional input/output (I/O) across a range of workloads. Features like Multiplexed Rank DIMM (MRDIMM) support, Compute Express Link (CXL) enhancements, integrated accelerators, and more give an additional boost to targeted workloads for even greater performance and efficiency.
Reference: Intel® Xeon® 6 Product Brief
