Dell PowerEdge R515 Technical Manual

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Dell28PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide5 Processors5.1 OverviewThe PowerEdge R515 uses the latest four-,six-, and eight-core offerings from the AMD Opteron™ 4000 series.5.2 FeaturesKey features of the 4100 series processor: Performance for blades and cost-effective DP serverso Up to six cores per processoro Up to 6M L3 Cache for 6-core processors (512 KB per core L2)o Enhanced AMD power efficiency features: CoolCore™ Technology, Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™ APMLo Demand-based switching for active processor power management, as well as support for ACPIP-States and C-States C1E support AMD CoolSpeedo Dual-channel U/RDDR3 up to 1333 MT/s, ECCo Up to 3 DIMMs per channel, 6 per processor (R415 supports to up 2 DIMMs per channel, 4 perprocessor)o Low voltage (LV) DIMM support (6-core processor only)o Designed for thermally-constrained environmentso 45 nm process technologyo PCIe Gen 2 with up to 42 lanes with 9 controllers (SR5670)o Single series for UP and DP platforms (enterprise scalability and features for 1P) New C32 socket infrastructureo Lower power/thermal bandso Dual 16-bit HT3 links, up to 6.4 GT/s per linko Workload-optimized platforms (SR5670 chipset for expandable SMB)Key features of the 4200 series processor: Opteron 4200 performance designed for dual-processor serverso Up to eight cores per processoro Up to 8M L3 cache; 1M L2 per coreo 32nm process New top BIN processors at 95W TDP 2 DDR3 memory channels, LRDIMM, RDIMM, UDIMM up to 1600 MT/s 2 HyperTransportTM technology 3.0 links up to 6.4 GT/s Architechture optimized for performance/watto Core Performance Boost “Boost” frequency of cores when available power allows No idle core requiremento Power efficiency enhancements Significantly reduced leakage power More aggressive dynamic power management