Lisa H Graff, VP, General Manager Datacenter Platform Engineering Group. As it is the case with most processor updates, the performance is up by a respectable margin, including on single-threaded or mildly parallelized apps. However, the big ticket items in our opinion is the big gain in terms of IO speed and power-efficiency (performance per Watt. From that point of view, the new Intel Xeon E5 is simply impressive, and if you take into account that this architecture is being declined in many segments and price ranges, it is clear that the new Intel Xeon E5 is very promising for the server space.
Ubergizmo, Intel Xeon E5 features ultra-fast IO and (much) increased power-efficiency
