NEW DELHI, INDIA: Computer technology major IBM today announced two IBM System x servers featuring new six-core processor technology from Intel.

The new servers offer exceptional power-efficiency, performance and virtualization capabilities for today's most demanding datacenters, said a press release.

"As the market leader in high-end x86 servers and the only vendor to design its own chip set for Intel-based servers, IBM is addressing the performance needs of our clients and the growing demand for scale up x86 servers," said Ajay Mittal, country manager -System x, IBM India/South Asia.

"The new System x servers announced today provide the innovation our x86 clients have come to expect, with better performance and power usage than our competitors' offerings," he added.

IBM said the new server is the first single x86 server to burst through the one million transactions per minute barrier on a TPC-C benchmark and the highest 4-socket x86 server TPC-C benchmark, delivering more transactions per minute than any other 4-processor server.

IBM has tuned the memory of the x3950 so clients can take full advantage of virtualization on the system with mainframe-like reliability and high efficiency power supplies and memory technology capable of up to 37 per cent lower overall power consumption, the release added.