Dell Server , Workstation Lines Deliver Power Of Four

Dell Server , Workstation Lines Deliver Power Of Four

Dell today enhanced its ninth-generation PowerEdgeTM servers and Dell PrecisionTM workstations with the industry’s first standards-based quad-core processors. The addition of Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to the two-socket Dell PowerEdge 1900, 1950, 2950, 2900, SC1430 and 1955 blade models support the company’s strategy to drive more complete and cost-effective enterprise technologies across a variety of customer environments.

Equipped with new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, these servers can rival the performance of Intel dual-core, four-socket systems and deliver up to 63 percent greater performance1 with up to 40 percent enhanced performance per watt2 while continuing to reduce complexity in the enterprise. The addition of quad-core processors across the Dell Precision desktop portfolio underscores Dell’s commitment to deliver the highest performance and scalability in standards-based professional workstations. Quad-core processors combined with Dell’s faster and more scalable memory architecture and latest OpenGL graphics mean professional workstation customers can handle the most demanding multi-threaded applications faster and more easily than ever.

Customers can now configure the two-socket Dell Precision 690 and Dell Precision 490 with new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, while the single-socket Dell Precision 390 supports the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor. Performance of heavily multi-threaded applications, such as Autodesk® Max® and Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation, modeling and rendering component, can scale dramatically with the addition of processor cores. When configured with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, the Dell Precision 690 and 490 workstations can deliver performance gains of up to 54 percent on multi-threaded applications.3

“Dell prides itself not only on being first to market with technology, but first to deliver exceptional value to the customer while helping to reduce costly complexity in their environment,” said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Product Group. “The introduction of quad-core processing enables us to guide customers more easily than ever to the benefits of a scale-out architecture, migrating from higher cost systems with four or more sockets used for enterprise applications to two socket systems with better price/performance and lower power consumption, and accelerating their ability to take advantage of this new technology for better business results now and in future growth.”

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