Looking Beyond the CPU
AI, 5G, Edge-to-Cloud and High-Performance Computing are game-changers. Not all architectures can keep up. Make sure to do your homework to get the full story about solutions based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors that deliver more performance and more efficiency with the depth and breadth of software, silicon, and platforms. Delivering for the game-changers. Make your business run better today and in the future with Intel.
1. Maximize Performance with Workload Acceleration
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor is the only x86 data center processor with built-in AI acceleration. Unique among the competition, Intel® Xeon® provides AVX-512 Vector instructions that enable outstanding workload acceleration on leading edge workloads. From Life Sciences to Finance, see performance gains by simply switching to the new 3rd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform.
Up to
22X
better performance on Image Classification vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
23%
better performance across 12 leading HPC applications and benchmarks vs. AMD EPYC at equal software licensing.
Up to
2.4X
better performance on NGINX Web Secure Key Exchange vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
22X
better performance on Image Classification vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
23%
better performance across 12 leading HPC applications and benchmarks vs. AMD EPYC at equal software licensing.
Up to
2.4X
better performance on NGINX Web Secure Key Exchange vs. AMD EPYC.
2. Leadership with Built-in AI and AI Inference
With AI acceleration and optimization that goes silicon deep and ecosystem wide, Intel® Xeon® leads on geomean average up to 50% higher performance across 20 popular AI/ML workloads vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
25X
better performance on Image Recognition vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
12X
better performance on Object Detection vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
2X
higher inference throughput on Natural Language Processing vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
25X
better performance on Image Recognition vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
12X
better performance on Object Detection vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
2X
higher inference throughput on Natural Language Processing vs. AMD EPYC.
3. Industry-Leading Software Optimizations
No one wants to limit their business by locking into a limited and restricted software and partner eco-system. Intel has long-standing engineering and business relationships with the leading commercial software providers, working with more than 1,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) to test and optimize performance at every layer of the software stack.
That’s true for data center software like SAP, VMware, Oracle, Microsoft SQL and many more.
Millions of developers use Intel optimization tools to take advantage of their hardware and software, with impressive performance gains. Intel offers the only x86 CPU Certified and Supported on SAP HANA®. SAP HANA® Accelerator for SAP ASE is supported only on Intel-based hardware platforms.
4. Datacenter Portfolio Makes Solutions Run Better
With Intel, you can confidently deploy applications with a vast ecosystem of software and hardware solution partners that have tested, validated, and optimized their offerings on Intel processors and platforms and reduce business risk.
Intel is simply the better choice because it just works!
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, combined with Intel’s portfolio of Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory and storage technologies, Ethernet adapters, FPGAs, optimized software solutions, AI accelerators, silicon photonics and advanced security capabilities, deliver performance and workload optimizations across all platforms.
Over 1.4 billion Intel® Ethernet ports deployed globally.
The only x86 platform capable of scaling up to 8 sockets and above for your most demanding mission critical workloads.
Leading memory capacity per socket for the largest data needs: up to 6TB per socket with Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 series.
World’s fastest SSD, Intel® Optane™ P5800X.
5. Unmatched Virtualization Value
Get increased capacity, higher VM densities and lower cost per users with Intel’s virtualization portfolio. Intel’s consistent processor architecture also provides maximum flexibility, workload mobility and portability within any cloud or data center environment with Live Migration across six generations of Intel® Xeon® platforms.
Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon® Scalable Processors matched with Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) outperforms AMD EPYC using an equivalent number of VMware licenses by:
Up to 53% better performance, 66% higher VM density, and 46% better performance per dollar on VMware ESXi/vSAN virtualization.
Plus, Intel’s leading Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions, provide a comprehensive roadmap to address the demands of high-performing virtual workforces.
Up to 6% lower cost per user with Intel® Optane™ PMem on VDI vs. AMD EPYC at equal VMware licensing.
6. Ready for New Software Architectures and Microservices
Intel takes full advantage of the benefits of cloud and microservices for your business and delivers flexibility, performance, and value for all your clouds. We are the trusted provider of more than a billion cores to power the cloud.
Up to
125X
more available cloud instance types vs. AMD. 50K instance types available globally on Intel® Xeon® Scalable platforms from leading CSPs.
Up to
18%
better performance and 20% lower average latency on Cloud Microservices vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
3X
higher performance on Financial Web Microservices vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
125X
more available cloud instance types vs. AMD. 50K instance types available globally on Intel® Xeon® Scalable platforms from leading CSPs.
Up to
18%
better performance and 20% lower average latency on Cloud Microservices vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to
3X
higher performance on Financial Web Microservices vs. AMD EPYC.
7. Meet Stringent Customer Service Level Agreements
Intel’s unique end-to-end architecture provides better response times, consistency, and lower latency for strict SLAs for your latency sensitive, emerging workloads such as databases, 5G, edge, AI, microservices, and more!
Meet the stringent challenges of customer requirements and SLAs with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Up to 39% higher throughput and 26% lower latency on vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure performance vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to 12% more MySQL transactions and 34% lower average new transaction database latency vs. AMD EPYC.
Up to 21% more PostgreSQL database transactions vs. AMD EPYC
8. Better Protect Your Data - Experience Intel’s Advanced Security
At Intel, “security-first” is our pledge. We strive to build the most secure hardware on the planet, from world-class CPUs to XPUs and related technology, enabled by software. And our security engines have been used more than a billion times worldwide.
Up to 2.4x better performance on NGINX Web Secure Key Exchange vs. AMD EPYC.
Plus, Confidential Computing powered by Intel® SGX is transforming the way the world does business.
Whether you are sharing confidential patient records and clinical images, or bank records to detect fraud - with confidential computing, you can revolutionize how data is secured during exchange and processing.
Over 300 leading ISVs, customers, and partners have already deployed Intel® SGX.
Intel® SGX is the most researched, updated, and deployed hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for the data center.
It’s available now with huge memory enclaves on Intel® 3rd Gen Xeon® Scalable Processors.
9. Responsible, Resilient and Diverse Global Supply Chain
The recent pandemic made supply-chain reliability more critical than ever. Intel delivers a secure, ultra-reliable supply chain with 9,000+ tier 1 suppliers in more than 80 countries.
While the competition relies on a limited number of vendors, regions and solutions, Intel is the only company with the depth and breadth of software, silicon and platforms, packaging and process with at-scale manufacturing that customers can depend on for their next-generation innovations.
A key advantage of Intel as an Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM) is it enables us to tightly control our supply chain to meet customer demands.
Plus, Intel has announced significant manufacturing expansions with its IDM 2.0. Strategy, starting with an estimated $20 billion investment plan to build two new factories in Arizona.
10. Trusted, Optimized, and Powerful Solutions
Intel’s rich industry-leading partner ecosystem delivers a range of optimized solutions from customized configurations to complete ready-to-deploy offerings that solve specific business challenges.
Intel Select Solutions are optimized for enterprise, hybrid cloud and network workloads, each balancing performance and cost. They are Intel-verified and delivered through our ecosystem partners.
Intel Market Ready Solutions for IoT, industrial and embedded segments deliver ready-to-deploy solutions for dozens of market segments and usages. They are delivered through our ecosystem partners.