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If these principles are applied across Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, socket-level bandwidth and memory-level performance will be optimized. The following figure illustrates the expected memory bandwidth curve when these rules are followed. Although not shown, please note that unbalanced configurations will see significant performance degradation compared to both the balanced and near balanced configurations displayed.