Intel's Xeon E5-2600 V2: 12-core Ivy Bridge EP for Servers
by Johan De Gelas on September 17, 2013 12:00 AM ESTJava Server Performance
The SPECjbb 2013 benchmark is based on a "usage model based on a world-wide supermarket company with an IT infrastructure that handles a mix of point-of-sale requests, online purchases and data-mining operations". It uses the latest Java 7 features and makes use of XML, compressed communication and messaging with security.
We tested with four groups of transaction injectors and backends. We applied a relatively basic tuning to mimic real world use.
"-server -Xmx4G -Xms4G -Xmn1G -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseLargePages-server -Xmx4G -Xms4G -Xmn1G -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseLargePages"
With these settings, the benchmark takes about 43GB of RAM. The first metric is basically maximum throughput.
The newest Xeon E5 2697 v2 delivers 33% better performance. The Opteron 6380 needs a 50% clock advantage to stay ahead of the 10-core Xeon E5. This illustrates how large the gap is between the Opterons and even the midrange Xeons. A 10-core Xeon E5-2660 V2 at 2.2GHz costs a bit more than the Opteron 6380 but will deliver a significantely better performance per watt, considering the very low 95W TDP.
The Critical-jOPS metric, is a throughput metric under response time constraint.
We have to admit we have our doubts. The Critical-jOPS measurements do not seem to be very repeateable and it is not completely clear how it is calculated. However, it confirms earlier measurements of our own that the Xeons are better at responding quickly at a given throughput. Again, the new Xeon 2697 v2 performs about 30% better than the Xeon E5 2690.
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psyq321 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Yep, EP-46xx v2 will use the same C1 stepping (for HCC SKUs) for production parts as 2P Xeons, but there will be some features enabled in microcode which did not make it in the 26xx SKUs.EX is already on D1 stepping for QS, as the validation cycle for EX is more strict due to more RAS features etc.
Casper42 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
So I work for HP and your comments about 4x1P instead of 2x2P make me wonder if you have been sneaking around our ProLiant development lab in Houston.I was there 6 weeks ago and a decent sized cluster of 1P nodes was being assembled on an as yet unannounced HP platform. I was told the early/beta customer it was for had done some testing and found for their particular HPC app, they were in fact getting measurably better overall performance.
The interesting thing about this design was they put 2 x 1P nodes on a single PCB (Motherboard) in order to more easily adapt the 1P nodes to a system largely designed with 2P space requirements in mind.
Pretty sure the chips were Haswell based as well but can't recall for sure.
André - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Would be nice to see benchmarks for OS X, considering this thing is going inside the new Mac Pro.Final Cut X, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve etc.
I believe the 2660v2 hits the sweet spot with it's 10 cores.
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
That'd require Apple giving Anandtech a new Mac Pro to run benchmarks on...Kevin G - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Now that Intel has officially launched the new Xeons, the new Mac Pro can't be far behind.wallysb01 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Well, you could run the CPU benchmarks just fine. But not the GPU ones.Simon G - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Typo in Conclusion section . . . " Thta's no small feat, . . ."garadante - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
There's a minor error on the Cinebench single-threaded graph. It has the clock speed for the E5-2697 v2 as 2.9 instead of 2.7, as it should be. Which is semi confusing on that graph as it explains the lower single-threaded performance from the E5-2690.SanX - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
This forum has most obsolete comments design of pre-Neanderthals times, no Edit, no Delete, no look at previous user comments. Effin shameMrSpadge - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
You mixed up forum and article comments.