AMD Dual Core Processor versus Intel Processor Comparison: Get higher performance and capability along with lower energy consumption, reducing costs and improving density from every server in your infrastructure based on the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor.

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Energy Efficient Performance
Get higher performance and capability along with lower energy consumption, reducing costs and improving density from every server in your infrastructure based on the new Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor.

The new Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems deliver leading performance and better performance per watt. Key platform feature improvements include:

• Lower power 54-bit dual-core processors based on Intel® Core&trademark; microarchitecture to improve performance per watt.
• Flexibility to do more with every system by leveraging server virtualization, now hardware-assisted with Intel® Virtualization Technology.
• New dual independent point-to-point bus and faster front side bus speed driving up to 3X bandwidth improvements versus prior Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms.
• Fully buffered DDR2 DIMM memory (FB-DIMM) for more throughput higher capacity and improved reliability.
• Platform supports future quad-core processors for continued performance gains and investment protection.

Leading Energy Efficiency

Why does system power matter
IT managers are faced with the challenge of a growing need for higher compute density and constant pressure to lower overall spending. The cost of electricity is the second highest data center cost, only second to labor. Lowering the power (watts) of each system helps increase compute density within a rack or a fixed footprint and also helps reduce operational cost associated with powering both the servers directly and the associated cooling.