Performance

Server performance

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 sequence

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence

Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 sequence


Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7300 Series Performance summary

Key messages on performance, energy-efficiency, virtualization & scalability
Message/claim Compared to Supporting data Comparison basis
Break through performance Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 series Up to 144% (2.44x) higher performance Published/submitted results on SPECint*_rate_base2006 as of September 5, 2007
Dual-Core AMD* Opteron* processor 8200 series
(best published result)
Leadership on key benchmarks with lead up to 152% (2.52x) Published/submitted results on TPC*-C, SAP*-SD, SPECint_rate_base2006, SPECWeb*2005 & SPECjbb*2005 (152% claim basis) as of January 4, 2008
Quad-Core AMD Opteron* 8300 Series Up to 16% higher Performance Published SPECint*_rate2006 results as of April 07, 2008 at 2.3GHz
Exceptional energy efficiency Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 series Up to 209% (3.09x) higher performance per watt Published results on SPECint_rate_base2006 as of September 5, 2007
Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor 8200 series
(best published result)
Up to 128% (2.28x) higher performance per watt Published results on SPECjbb2005 as of September 5, 2007
Built for virtualization Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 series Up to 167% (2.67x) higher virtualization performance Published results on vConsolidate* benchmark using Virtual Iron* 4.0 as of September 5, 2007
Exceptional scalability Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series Up to 86% (1.86x) higher performance Published/submitted results on SPECint_rate_base2006 as of September 5, 2007

New Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series based servers:

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series based platforms deliver breakthrough performance, energy efficiency making them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient and responsive.

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Break through performance

Comparison to Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 Series (144% claim) based on SPECint*_rate_base2006 result:

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7140M based platform details:

Fujitsu Siemens* PRIMERGY* RX600 S3 platform with four Intel Xeon processors 7140M 3.4GHz, 16MB L3 cache, 32GB memory PC2-3200R ECC, disk Fujitsu* SCSI 73GB 15krpm, 64-Bit SUSE* LINUX* Enterprise Server 10 Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp on an x86_64, Intel® C++ Compiler for IA32/EM64T application Version 9.1. Referenced as published at 75.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q2/cpu2006-20070402-00725.html.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X7350 based platform details:

IBM* System x3850 M2 Server platform with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X7350 2.93GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 16 x 4GB DDR2-PC5300, 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Kernel Linux, Intel® C++ Compiler for Linux32 and Linux64 Version 10.1 Build 20070725. Results submitted to http://www.spec.org as of September 4, 2007 at 184.

Comparison to Dual-Core AMD* Opteron* processor 8200 Series (147% claim) based on published/submitted SPECjbb*2005 result:

Dual-Core AMD* Opteron* processor 8222SE based platform details:

Dell* PowerEdge* 6950 platform with four Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors 8222SE 3.0GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 32GB memory PC2-5300P, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1, BEA* JRockit* 5.0 P27.2.0 (build P27.2.0-19-82330-1.5.0_10-20070515-1627-windows-x86_64). Measured at 176,909 bops and 44227 bops/JVM. For more information see http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2007q2/jbb2005-20070529-00319.html.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350 based platform details:

Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX600 S4 platform with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X7350 2.93GHz, 2x4MB L2 Cache, 64GB memory (16x4GB), Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1, BEA* JRockit* 6.0 P27.4.0 (build P27.4.0-3-86647-1.6.0_02-20070801-1931-windows-x86_64). Result submitted to www.spec.org for review as of September 5, 2007 at 437,412 bops and 54,677 bops/JVM.

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Exceptional energy efficiency

Comparison to Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 Series (209% claim) based on SPECint_rate_base2006 performance/watt result published by Principled Technologies at http://principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/E7340SPECint0907.pdf as of September 5, 2007:

Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M based platform details:

Intel® Server Platform with four Intel Xeon processors 7140M 3.4GHz, 8 cores, 16MB L3 cache, 16GB (16x1GB) memory PC2-5300 DDR2, disk Seagate* 1x146GB 15krpm SCSI, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, SunGard* Adaptiv Credit Risk* 64-bit version workload.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor E7340 based platform details:

Intel Server Platform with four Intel Xeon processors E7340 2.4GHz, 16 cores, 2x4MB L2 cache, 16GB (16x1GB) memory PC2-5300 FB-DDR2, disk Seagate* 1x73GB 10krpm SAS, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload.

Comparison to Dual-Core AMD Opteron 8200 Series (128% claim) based on SPECjbb2005 performance/watt result published by Principled Technologies at http://principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/E7340SPECjbb0907.pdf as of September 5, 2007:

Dual-Core AMD* Opteron* processor Model 8220 based platform details:

HP* server platform with four AMD Opteron processors 8220 2.8GHz, 8 cores, 2x1MB L2 cache, 16GB (16x1GB) memory PC2-5300 DDR2, disk HP* 1x72GB 15krpm SAS, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor E7340 based platform details:

Intel Server Platform with four Intel Xeon processors E7340 2.4GHz, 16 cores, 2x4MB L2 cache, 16GB (16x1GB) memory PC2-5300 FB-DDR2, disk Seagate 1x73GB 10krpm SAS, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload.

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Built for virtualization

Comparison to Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 Series (167% claim) based on vConsolidate* benchmark result published on Virtual Iron* 4.0 software:

Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M based platform details:

Intel Server Platform with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors 7140M 3.4GHz, 800 MHz system bus, 16MB L3 cache, Intel® E8500 chipset, 32GB memory DDR2 PC2-5300P, 14x Seagate* Cheetah* 36GB 15krpm Fibre Channel HDD. Maximum performance achieved using 2 CSUs.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350 based platform details:

Intel Server Platform with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X7350 2.93GHz, 1066 MHz system bus, 8MB L2 cache, Clarksboro chipset, 32GB memory FBD PC2-5300F, 14x Seagate Cheetah 36GB 15krpm Fibre Channel HDD. Maximum performance achieved using 4 CSUs.

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Exceptional scalability

Comparison to Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series (86% claim) based on published/submitted SPECint_rate_base2006 result:

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5365 based platform details:

Fujitsu Siemens* PRIMERGY* TX300 S3 with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X5365 3.0 GHz, 1333 MHz system bus, 2x4MB L2 cache, memory 8GB (8x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300F ECC, disk Seagate* ST3146854SS SAS 146GB 15krpm, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp, Intel C++ Compiler for IA32/EM64T application Version 10.0. Published in July 2007. Referenced as published at 98.9. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070710-01408.html.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350 based platform details:

IBM System x3850 M2 server platform with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X7350 2.93GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 16 x 4GB DDR2-PC5300, 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Kernel Linux, Intel C++ Compiler for Linux32 and Linux64 Version 10.1 Build 20070725. Results submitted to http://www.spec.org as of September 4, 2007 at 184.

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