Intel's newest Quad Xeon MP versus HP's DL585 Quad Opteron
by Johan De Gelas on November 10, 2006 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
The Official SPEC Numbers
We checked the SPEC FP and Int 2000 rates to get a first idea of what to expect. The Spec Rates are nothing more than measuring the performance of running multiple copies of the Spec CPU benchmarks simultaneously. Typically, the number of copies is the same as the number of cores. Again, it is important to note that these benchmark numbers are highly dependent on the compiler. SPEC fp and Integer show the best case performance as the CPU runs on aggressively compiled and highly optimized code. In reality, real world code is typically compiled in a more conservative and less optimized fashion.
Digging into the SPEC database, some very interesting results surface. The Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX600 S3 with Intel Xeon processor 7130M, 3.20 GHz is speced very similar to the Intel server in this test, and the HP DL585 machine is identical to ours and about 5% slower than the Xeon 7130 machine. The massive L3 cache is definitely helping the Xeon here.
Note the foolish figure that the previous Xeon MP 7041 cuts: almost 30% slower, 3 times more expensive and consuming twice as much compared to the Opteron 880 in the HP DL585. On top of that, Intel's newest Xeon 5160 makes the Quad Xeon MP 7041 look completely ridiculous as it performs 14% better with only two CPUs.
Floating point tests paint a different figure. The Xeon MP is no longer competitive. The best FP monsters are clearly the IBM Power 5+, Intel's Itanium, and AMD's Opteron. The AMD Opteron 880 is 43% faster than the Xeon MP 7130M.
We checked the SPEC FP and Int 2000 rates to get a first idea of what to expect. The Spec Rates are nothing more than measuring the performance of running multiple copies of the Spec CPU benchmarks simultaneously. Typically, the number of copies is the same as the number of cores. Again, it is important to note that these benchmark numbers are highly dependent on the compiler. SPEC fp and Integer show the best case performance as the CPU runs on aggressively compiled and highly optimized code. In reality, real world code is typically compiled in a more conservative and less optimized fashion.
SPEC Int 2000 Performance | ||
(CPU/cores) Server / CPU | Clock Speed (MHz) | SPEC Int 2000 |
(4/8) IBM POWER5+ 36MB L3 | 2200 | 196 |
(4/8) HP Opteron AM2 | 2800 | 160 |
(4/8) HP Xeon MP 7140M 16MB L3 | 3400 | 159 |
(4/8) FSC Xeon MP 7130M 8MB L3 | 3200 | 143 |
(8/8) Hitachi Itanium 2 | 1666 | 138 |
(4/8) HP Proliant DL585 Opteron | 2400 | 136 |
(2/4) Dell Xeon 5160 | 3000 | 123 |
(4/8) IBM Xeon MP 7041 | 3000 | 108 |
Digging into the SPEC database, some very interesting results surface. The Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX600 S3 with Intel Xeon processor 7130M, 3.20 GHz is speced very similar to the Intel server in this test, and the HP DL585 machine is identical to ours and about 5% slower than the Xeon 7130 machine. The massive L3 cache is definitely helping the Xeon here.
Note the foolish figure that the previous Xeon MP 7041 cuts: almost 30% slower, 3 times more expensive and consuming twice as much compared to the Opteron 880 in the HP DL585. On top of that, Intel's newest Xeon 5160 makes the Quad Xeon MP 7041 look completely ridiculous as it performs 14% better with only two CPUs.
SPEC FP 2000 Performance | ||
(CPU/cores) Server / CPU | Clock Speed (MHz) | SPEC FP 2000 |
(4/8) IBM POWER5+ 36MB L3 | 2200 | 355 |
(4/8) SGI Itanium Montecito 12 MB L3 | 1600 | 244 |
(4/8) AMD Opteron 8220 SE | 2800 | 163 |
(4/8) Sun Opteron 880 | 2400 | 140 |
(4/8) HP Xeon MP 7140M 16 MB L3 | 3400 | 105 |
(4/8) FS Xeon MP 7130M 8 MB L3 | 3200 | 97 |
(2/4) Dell Xeon 5160 | 3000 | 81 |
(4/8) IBM Xeon MP 7041 | 3000 | 64 |
Floating point tests paint a different figure. The Xeon MP is no longer competitive. The best FP monsters are clearly the IBM Power 5+, Intel's Itanium, and AMD's Opteron. The AMD Opteron 880 is 43% faster than the Xeon MP 7130M.
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DigitalFreak - Friday, November 10, 2006 - link
No, the DL580 is a quad socket as well.Although it's probably what you already had on hand, the new DL585G2 offers a lot of what you said the DL585 lacked (PCI-E, etc.)
JohanAnandtech - Saturday, November 11, 2006 - link
My bad, by reading "Woodcrest" (which is wrong) I thought there was some DL580 model that was dual socket that I wasn't aware off. So basically the DL580G4 is Tulsa based, I think the DL585 is a more interesting competitor for our Intel server.The fastest DL580G3 are all Paxville (or even older based) so not interesting for comparison... the spec numbers make it clear it is pretty bad performer.
severian64 - Friday, November 10, 2006 - link
Jason,If you are read this, please include the following benchmarks on Windows for the Quad Intel vs Quad Operton if you do a quad shootout on windows:
1) Windows 2003 Server x86-64 , SQL Server 2005 x86-64
2) Windows 2003 Server x86-32, SQL Server 2005 x86-32, Exchange 2003
For the SQL Server 2005 tests please test all aspects of the database such as SQL Server Integration Services not just SQL statements.
Also, the tests would be most usefull if they were done with 4GB , 8GB and 16GB configs.
Thanks,
Severian.
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