The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores
by Johan De Gelas on March 16, 2010 3:39 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Virtualization & consolidation
VMmark - which we discussed in great detail here - tries to measure typical consolidation workloads: a combination of a light mail server, database, fileserver, and website with a somewhat heavier java application. One VM is just sitting idle, representative of workloads that have to be online but which perform very little work (for example, a domain controller). In short, VMmark goes for the scenario where you want to consolidate lots and lots of smaller apps on one physical server.
(*) preliminary benchmark data
VMmark is another completely Intel dominated benchmark. One six-core Xeon 2.93 is worth two six-core Opterons at 2.6 GHz. It is important to emphasize that we are talking about benchmark which runs up to 120 VMs, so this benchmark might be influenced greatly by VM exit and entry times. So let us take a look at our own virtualization benchmarks with fewer VM to hypervisor transitions.
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DigitalFreak - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
Are you seriously going to buy a dual socket server (or workstation at a minimum) to play games? I'd rather see them take the time to do more enterprise benchmarking than waste it on what 0.00001% of the market wants.Starglider - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - link
No but some HPC / CAD / scientific computing benchmarks would be good. Presumably we'll get the full suite when Nehalem EX and Magny Cours turn up.vitchilo - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
I want to encode video, I mean a s***load of video + play games from time to time.rajod1 - Monday, February 1, 2016 - link
You see you are writing server cpu reviews to punk kids that somehow only think of playing a game on a server. They just do not get it. Babies with computers, maybe this could play mario. These are good for boring server work, database, HyperV, etc. ECC ram. And they are still the best bang for the buck in a used server in 2016.Starglider - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
> You can now use up to two DIMMs at 1333MHz,> while the Xeon 5500 would throttle back to
> 1066MHz if you did this.
Presumably you mean 'up to two DIMMs per channel'?
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
Not sure about the 2 DIMMs per channel forcing 1066Mhz. We've been ordering Dell R710s with the X5570 and 12x4GB of memory, which runs at 1333Mhz.TurboMax3 - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - link
You are right. I work for Dell, since a couple of months after the launch of the 5500 Xeons we could do 2 DIMM per Channel (DPC) at 1333 MHz. It is a property of the chipset, rather than the CPU.Also, going to 3 DPC will clock the memory down to 800 MHz, and this has been available in R710 (and similar products from others) for some time now.
The 8GB DIMM is getting cheap enough to be quoted without shame. 16 GB DIMMS still cost as much as my car.
Navier - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
Do you have information on Nehalem-EX and how that is going to fit in the updated road map with the latest 6 core systems?DigitalFreak - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - link
The Nehalem-EX (probably called the Xeon 7500 series) are for quad socket boxes. From what I've been hearing, they should be released on 3/30. Not sure when the Poweredge R910 and Proliant DL580 G7 will show up though.duploxxx - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - link
it is launched on 30/3 but actually only available mid june, call it a paper launch or whatever you want.