Intel E5-2640 v3 CM8064401830901 User Manual

Foundation for Trust and Security

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Data protection and data center security is critical to all 
organizations. Intel’s hardware-enhanced security technolo-
gies on the Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 product family 
better protect data and platforms through workload isolation, 
security policy enforcement, and faster data encryption.

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 – Intel® Data 

Protection Technology with Intel® Advanced Encryption 
Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) accelerates data 
encryption and decryption up to 2X faster than previous-
generation Intel Xeon Processor E5 family. With many work-
loads, Intel AES-NI encryption and decryption is practically  
transparent to system resources. Combined with Intel  
Data Protection technology with Intel® Secure Key random 
number generation, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 family  
provides even stronger data protection.

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  Strong protection against platform attacks – Intel® Plat-

form Protection Technology with Intel® OS Guard and BIOS 
Guard traps external calls trying to hijack System Manage-
ment Mode (SMM) code in the OS, and provides workstation 
BIOS protection during FLASH updates via protected  
agent authentication.

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Intel® Platform Protection Technology – with Intel®Trusted 
Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) helps protect platform 
firmware and the OS kernel from pre-boot attacks. TXT  
now supports Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0)  
with stronger cryptographic capabilities.

Innovation that Streamlines the Data Center

With the growth of private and hybrid clouds in the enterprise 
and with increasing demand for services, IT seeks higher 
efficiencies in orchestration, data center management, and 
virtualization on a path toward a Software-Defined Infra-
structure (SDI). The Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 family 
brings several innovations, such as Intel® Node Manager 3.0 
to help IT deliver greater levels of efficiency, while respond-
ing faster to business needs. Other key innovations that will 
have significant impact on streamlining data centers and 
extending efficiency and performance include DDR4 and 
Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 Series.

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 – DDR4 next- 

generation memory technology improves platform per- 
formance on memory intensive workloads with up to 1.4X 
higher bandwidth versus previous-generation platforms. 
Adopting DDR4 enables solutions to meet data center  
energy efficiency requirements. 

telemetry – Intel Node Manager 3.0 can provide real-time 
telemetry data on server power, thermal, and utilization. 

IT may utilize this data to implement policies that can help 
improve data center efficiency and power utilization, which 
are key components of orchestration and a highly efficient 
data center.

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  Infrastructure utilization – Cache monitoring allows real-

time, high-confidence measurements of LLC usage, providing 
control of workload placement and load balancing across 
shared infrastructure in the virtualized environment.

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 Low I/O latency – Intel® Data Directed I/O enhancements 
allow targeting the LLC for I/O traffic and controlling the 
LLC way assignment to specific cores, without hitting the 
memory first. These result in high LLC performance and  
low I/O latency.

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Product Family Overview

High Performance for the Broadest Range of Applications  
and Environments

Advanced multi-core, multi-threaded processing

• Up to 18 cores and 36 threads per socket

Larger cache and faster memory

• Up to 45 MB of LLC for fast access to frequently used data

•  Up to 24 DIMMs per two-socket server to support multiple 

data-hungry VMs

•  Faster maximum memory speeds than the previous  

generation (2133 MHz versus 1866 MHz)

Higher performance for diverse workloads

•  Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

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 takes advantage of  

power and thermal headroom to increase processor  
frequencies for diverse workloads

Higher performance for technical computing applications

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•  Intel AVX2 accelerates floating point and integer  

computations with support for 256-bit vectors

•  Provides up to 1.9X more peak floating point operations

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than previous generation 

Industry-leading I/O performance

•  Intel Integrated I/O provides up to 80 PCIe* lanes per two-

socket server, and supports the PCIe 3.0 specification with 
atomic operations support for improved peer-to-peer  
(P2P) bandwidth

•  The Non-Volatile Memory Express* (NVMe*) specification 

that is supported by the Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center 
Family for PCIe overcomes SAS and SATA SSD performance 
limitations through an optimized register interface, com-
mand set, and feature set for PCI Express (PCIe*)-based 
Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information please  
visit 

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