Per Watt Benchmarks: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800 -Energy Efficiency

Intel Xeon

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Solve your mission-critical IT challenges of managing and keeping secure the data crucial to your business with a powerful and reliable server featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7. These top-of-the-line processors deliver performance that is ideal for your most data-demanding workloads with improved scalability, and increased memory and I/O capacity, allowing you to handily adapt to changes in short-term business demands, and address requirements for longer-term business growth. Advanced reliability and security features work to maintain data integrity, accelerate encrypted transactions, and maximize the availability of mission-critical applications. The powerful and reliable Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family—flexibility for your business-critical solutions.

Energy efficiency for business processing servers

    Performance Per Watt (PPW) energy efficiency improvements on Microsoft SQL Server*

Performance Per Watt (PPW) energy efficiency improvements on Microsoft SQL Server*

Performance Per Watt (PPW) energy efficiency improvements on Microsoft SQL Server*

Back-end SQL Server* databases are consuming more and more resources in the datacenter due to the explosion of data growth. Every day, more databases are being consolidated in a virtualized environment but IT managers want to reduce total costs through improved performance/watt/$.

Benchmark description for DVD Store 2

SQL Server* database benchmark focusing on e-commerce transactions in a virtualized environment. Measures Orders/Minute (OPM) and OPM/Watts @ 100%.

Performance Per Watt (PPW) energy efficiency improvements on Microsoft SQL Server*

Back-end SQL Server* databases are consuming more and more resources in the datacenter due to the explosion of data growth. Everyday, more databases are being consolidated in a virtualized environment but IT managers want to reduce total costs through improved performance/watt/$.

Performance Per Watt (PPW) energy efficiency improvements on Microsoft SQL Server*

Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

As of May 6, 2011

Virtualized SQL Server Database performance on DVD Store 2 benchmark

Comparison is based on Dell* measured 4-socket servers using Intel Xeon processor X7560 and E7-4870 models with VMware* ESX 4.1 hypervisor. Source: http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/jD7st0SRn16bZhoLImoZoQ505396 (PDF 494KB).

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details

Dell PowerEdge* R910 platform with four (4P/32C/64T) Intel Xeon processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 128GB memory, Microsoft SQL Server* 2008 R2 database, Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 x64. Referenced as published at 541,971 OPM @ 100%, 984W @ 100%, and 551 OPM/average watts @ 100% using 32 virtual machines (VMs) with two logical processors / VM.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 based platform details

Dell PowerEdge* R910 platform with four (4P/40C/80T) Intel Xeon processors E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 256GB memory, Microsoft SQL Server* 2008 R2 database, Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 x64. Referenced as published at 727,049 OPM @ 100%, 881W @ 100%, and 825 OPM/average watts @ 100% using 32 virtual machines (VMs) with two logical processors / VM.

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