Intel 9560 CM8063101049716 Data Sheet

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The Intel

®

 Itanium

®

 Processor 9300 Series processor and Intel

®

 Itanium

®

 Processor 

9500 Series processor features are compared below in 

Socket

LG1248

LG1248

Transistors

2 billion

3.1 billion

Cores/Threads

up to 4/8

up to 8/16

Clock speeds

up to 1.86 GHz via Intel

®

 Turbo Boost 

with sustained boost

1.73 - 2.53 GHz

Integrated on-die cache

L1 (L1I 16K/L1D 16K),

L2 (L2I 512K, L2D 256K), 

inclusive L3 (6 MB per core, 

up to 24 MB)

FLC (FLI 16K/FLD 16K),

MLC (MLI 512K, MLD 256K), 

LLC (shared, up to 32 MB)

Ararat Voltage Regulator Module Support

Ararat “I”

Ararat II

Supported speeds

DDR3-800

DDR3-800 and DDR3-1067

Intel QPI links

6 

(4 full/2 half width at up to 4.8 GT/s)

6 

(4 full/2 half width at up to 6.4 GT/s)

Intel QPI Hot-plug

Supported

Supported

Intel QPI Link self-healing

Supported

Supported

Intel QPI Clock fail-safe

Supported

Supported

Intel QPI Data scrambling

Supported

Required

Intel QPI Periodic retraining

Not Supported

Required

1

Integrated memory controllers

2

2

Intel

®

 SMI Interface

Intel

® 

7500 Scalable Memory Buffer 

(4.8 GT/s)

Intel

® 

7500 Scalable Memory Buffer 

(4.8 GT/s)

Intel

® 

7510 Scalable Memory Buffer 

(6.4 GT/s)

Intel

®

 SMI Hot-plug

Supported

Supported

Physical address space/virtual address 

space

50 physical/64 virtual

50 physical/64 virtual

Caching agent architecture

four caching agents per socket where 

each agent is responsible for all of the 

address space and dedicated to a core

two caching agents per socket are 

responsible for half the address space 

and shared among the cores

Home agents per socket

2

2

Directory Cache

Supported

Supported

Intel

®

 Virtualization Technology (Intel

® 

VT)

Intel

® 

Vt-i 2

Intel

® 

Vt-i 3

Hot add/hot removal at Intel QPI link and 

DIMM memory interface

Supported

Supported

Hot add CPU

Supported

2,3

Supported

2,3

Hot add memory

Supported

2,3

Supported

2,3

Hot remove/hot replace memory

Supported

2,3

Supported

2,3

Memory sparing technique

DIMM

DIMM and Rank

Memory scrubbing

Supported

Supported

Memory mirroring

Supported

Supported