Why Intel is the Right

Partner for Business

1 Maximize Performance with 6 Ready for New Software

Workload Acceleration Architectures and Microservices

! 2 Leadership with Built-in AI 7 Meet Stringent Customer Service

and AI Inference Level Agreements

3 Industry-Leading Software 8 Better Protect Your Data -

Optimizations with Support from Experience Intel’s Advanced Security
Over 1000 ISVs
9 Responsible, Resilient and Diverse
4 Comprehensive Datacenter Portfolio Global Supply Chain
Makes Solutions Run Better
10 Trusted, Optimized, and Powerful
5 Unmatched Virtualization Value Solutions. Deploy Intel Solutions
with Confidence

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
Think about your business computing needs and workloads. Are you
reaching into your toolbox for ever-increasing demands of cloud,
networking, data analytics, HPC, AI, databases, crypto, and other compute-intensive
workloads? 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® processors power any workload and lift
your productivity. Workload accelerations free up CPU cores for
more value-added tasks, thus improving overall performance.

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor is the only x86 data center

processor with built-in AI acceleration.1

22x
Up to better performance on
Image Classification
vs. AMD EPYC.2

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.
Demanding Workloads? Intel delivers.

23% 2.4x
Up to Up to

better performance across 12 better performance on

leading HPC applications NGINX Web Secure
and benchmarks vs. AMD EPYC at Key Exchange
equal software licensing.3 vs. AMD EPYC.4

Learn more about Acceleration with Power and Cost Efficiency.

Go to Intel® Accelerator Solutions.

Leadership with Built-in

AI and AI Inference
Artificial intelligence offers extraordinary possibilities
for every industry. While the future is AI, not all CPU’s are
made for delivering top-level AI performance. Intel® Xeon® Scalable
Processor with built-in AI and Intel’s rich catalog of smart AI
2
solutions, tools and accelerators deliver high performance—and value.

25x 12x
Up to Up to

better performance on better performance on

Image Recognition Object Detection
vs. AMD EPYC.5 vs. AMD EPYC.6

2x
Up to
higher inference throughput
on Natural
Language
Processing vs. AMD EPYC.7
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.8

Learn more about deploying AI workloads for next-generation use cases.

Go to Intel’s AI & Deep Learning Solutions.

3
Industry-Leading Software
Optimizations with Support
from Over 1000 ISVs.
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.9
That’s true for data center software like SAP, VMware, Oracle, Microsoft
SQL and many more.10

Intel offers the only SAP HANA® Accelerator for

x86 CPU Certified SAP ASE is supported

and Supported on only on Intel-based

SAP HANA®.11 hardware platforms.12

Millions of developers use Intel optimization tools to take advantage of

their hardware and software, with impressive performance gains.13

Learn more about Intel Leadership in Software and Optimizations.

Go to Intel® Software Partnerships.

4
Comprehensive Datacenter
Portfolio Makes Solutions
Run Better
Data Center efficiency and performance rely on a holistic approach and
the CPU is only part of the story. Intel has all the right pieces in one
place for moving, storing, and processing data. While AMD and other
companies narrowly focus on CPU performance, we go beyond
processing to deliver increasing value directly to your business.

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.14

• 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.15

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!

Learn more about Intel’s Data Center portfolio.

Go to Intel® Data Center Solutions.

5
Unmatched
Virtualization Value
Virtualization can increase performance, mobility, flexibility,
scalability, and IT agility while creating significant cost
savings for your business. But not all virtualization experiences are
efficient or cost effective. Intel’s leading virtualization portfolio features
ease of management, reduced deployment complexity, and seamless VM
portability for your business.

Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon® Scalable Plus, Intel’s leading Virtual

Processors matched with Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Intel® Optane™ Persistent solutions, provide a
Memory (PMem) outperforms comprehensive roadmap to
AMD EPYC using an address the demands of
equivalent number of high-performing virtual
VMware licenses by: workforces.
• Up to 53% better • Up to 6% lower cost per
performance, 66% higher user with Intel® Optane™
VM density, and 46% PMem on VDI vs. AMD
better performance per EPYC at equal software
dollar on VMware licensing.17
ESXi/vSAN virtualization.16

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 Xeon®
platforms.18 Get increased capacity, higher VM densities and lower cost
per users with Intel’s virtualization portfolio.

6
Ready for New Software
Architectures and
Microservices
Are you getting the best cloud performance for
your business? Are you ready for new software
architectures and microservices? As new
technologies get introduced in cloud
environments with promises of agility, flexibility,
cost efficiency, and resiliency, when you specify
Intel processor-based cloud instances, you know who you are dealing
with. We are the trusted provider of more than a billion cores
to power the cloud.19 Intel takes full advantage of the benefits of
cloud and microservices for your business and delivers flexibility,
performance, and value for all your clouds.

Up to 125x more Up to 18% better Up to 3x higher

available cloud instance performance performance on
types vs. AMD. 20 50K and 20% lower Financial Web
instance types available average latency Microservices
globally on Intel® Xeon® on Cloud vs. AMD EPYC. 22
Scalable platforms from Microservices vs.
leading CSPs. AMD EPYC.21

Learn more about the benefits of Intel in the Cloud.

Go to Intel® Edge to Cloud.

7
Meet Stringent Customer
Service Level Agreements
Data needs to travel from origination to
destination quickly, safely, and efficiently.
End users expect consistency in application response times and if you are
not able to consistently meet service level agreements (SLAs) you risk your
business operations. But it’s about more than processing speed. 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 Up to

39
higher throughput and
% 12
more MySQL
%

26
transactions and

%
lower latency on vSAN
hyper-converged infrastructure
34
lower average new
%
performance vs AMD EPYC. 23 transaction database
latency vs. AMD EPYC.24

21 %
Up to more PostgreSQL
database transactions
vs AMD EPYC.25

Better Protect Your Data - Experience

8
Intel’s Advanced Security
At Intel, “security-first” is our pledge. We strive to build
Over 200
the most secure hardware onISVs and partners
the planet, have
from world-
class CPUs to XPUsalready
and related
deployed Intel SGX by
technology, enabled
® 32

software. Our security engines have been used more than

a billion times worldwide.26 Our processors feature enhanced built-
in cryptography instructions along with new features that include Intel®
Platform Firmware Resilience (Intel® PFR) for growing resilience to help
protect against platform firmware attacks.

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.27

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.28

Learn more about Intel’s foundational security, data and

workload protection solutions. Go to Intel® Security.

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.29

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.30

Trusted, Optimized, and Powerful

10
Solutions. Deploy Intel
Solutions with Confidence.
Powerful new technologies are transforming business,
and Intel’s vast portfolio of solutions empower
organizations to take advantage of game-changing innovations. 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. Proven best-in-class
solutions that enable you to deploy faster and with confidence.
Implementing solutions with your trusted Intel advisor delivers greater
business insights, efficiency, and productivity to turn your business
challenges into business advantages.

Intel Select Solutions are Intel Market Ready Solutions

optimized for enterprise, hybrid for IoT, industrial and embedded
cloud and network workloads, segments deliver ready-to-
each balancing performance deploy solutions for dozens of
and cost. They are Intel-verified market segments and usages.
and delivered through our They are delivered through our
ecosystem partners. ecosystem partners.

Explore trusted, optimized, and powerful solutions.

Go to Intel® Solutions.

learn more:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/
en/now/edge-to-cloud/cloud.html 

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2- See [31] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
3- See [104] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
4- See [89] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
5- See [33] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
6- See [32] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
7- See [34] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
8- See [43] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
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October 20, 2021.
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16- See [41] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
17- See [49] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
18- Principled Technologies Report, VM Migration Without Hassle accessed October 20, 2021.
19- Intel internal estimate using IDC Public Cloud Services Tracker and Intel’s Internal Cloud Tracker, as of October 20, 2021.
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2021/04/3rd-Gen-Intel-Xeon-Scalable-Platform-Press-Presentation-281884.pdf, slide 5, accessed October 20, 2021.
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For AMD instance type number expectations by the end of 2021, source: AMD Q2 2021 Earnings Webcast, https://ir.amd.com/, full webcast is available at
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21- See [50] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
22- See [46] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
23- See [48] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
24- See [93] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
25- See [94] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
26- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/hardware/hardware-security-overview.html, October 20, 2021.
27- https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2021/04/3rd-Gen-Intel-Xeon-Scalable-Platform-Press-Presentation-281884.pdf, slide 11, updated Intel tracker numbers as of
October 20, 2021.
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29- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/supply-chain.html, October 20,2021, accessed October 20, 2021.
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Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more at intel.com/performanceindex.
Performance results are based on testing by Intel as of 10/20/2021 and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See configuration disclosures for details.
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