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PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide
5 Processors
5.1 Overview
The PowerEdge R515 utilizes the latest four and six core offerings from AMD’s Opteron 4000 series (C32).
5.2 Features
Performance for blades and cost-effective DP servers
o Up to six cores per processor
o Up to 6M L3 Cache for 6-core processor (512KB per core L2)
o Enhanced AMD power efficiency features:
CoolCore™ Technology
Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™
APML
o Demand-based switching for active processor power management, as well as support for ACPI
P-States and C-States
C1E support
AMD CoolSpeed
o Dual-channel U/RDDR3 up to 1333 MHz, ECC
o Up to 3 DIMMs/channel, 6 per CPU (R515 supports to up 2 DIMMs/channel, 4 per processor)
o Low voltage DIMM support (6-core processor only)
o Designed for thermally-constrained environments
o 45 nm process technology
o PCIe Gen 2 with up to 42 lanes with 9 controllers (SR5670)
o Single series for UP and DP platforms (enterprise scalability and features for 1P)
New C32 socket infrastructure
o Lower power/thermal bands
o Dual 16-bit HT3 links, up to 6.4 GT/s per link
o Workload optimized platforms (SR5670 chipset for expandable SMB)
5.3 Supported Processors
Table 8. Supported Processor Description and Features
HyperTransport
Multiplier
