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
Words of thanks
A lot of people gave us assistance with this project, and we would of course like to thank them.
Trevor E. Lawless, Intel US
Matty Bakkeren, Intel Netherlands
Markus Weingartner, Intel Germany
(www.intel.com)
Damon Muzny, AMD US
(www.amd.com)
Angela Rosario, Supermicro US
Michael Kalodrich, Supermicro US
Peter Yang, Supermicro US
(http://www.supermicro.com)
Peter Zaitsev, Elite MySQL Guru
(www.mysql.com)
Bob Cramblitt and Larry D. Gray
(www.spec.org)
Brecht Kets, MySQL patching and tuning
Pieter Beel, SPECjbb benchmarking
Anja Gheldof, MySQL benchmarking
Tijl Deneut, Linux support
Benchmark configuration
In case you're wondering why we chose to use the fastest Xeon DP, the second fastest Xeon MP, and the second fastest Opteron, the reason is simple: those were the CPUs that were made available to us. As always, both AMD and Intel were contacted for this test. If a manufacturer has questions about any of our benchmarks, it is discussed and if necessary the manufacturer is allowed to login to our servers and monitor our benchmarking. This allows us to use our own benchmarks and not only industry standard benchmarks, which easily fall victim of "extreme" and in some cases "non-realistic" tuning....
Hardware configurations
Here is the list of the different configurations:
Xeon Server 1: Dual Xeon DP Supermicro SS6015b-8+
Dual Xeon DP 5160 3 GHz
Intel 5000P chipset
Supermicro's X7DBR-8+
8GB (8x1024 MB) Micron FB - DIMM Registered DDR-II 533 MHz CAS 4, ECC enabled
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Xeon Server 2: Quad Xeon MP Intel SR6850HW4
Quad Xeon MP 7130M 3.2 GHz 8MB L3
Intel 8501 chipset
16GB (8x2048 MB) Micron Registered DDR-II PC2-3200R, 400 MHz CAS 3, ECC enabled
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Opteron Server 1: Quad Opteron HP DL585
Quad Opteron 880 2.4 GHz
AMD8000 Chipset
16GB (16x1048 MB) Crucial DDR333 CAS 2.5, ECC enabled
NIC: NC7782 Dual PCI-X Gigabit
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Client Configuration: Dual Opteron 850
Dual Opteron 850 1.8 GHz
MSI K8T Master1-FAR
4x512 MB Infineon PC2700 Registered, ECC
NIC: Broadcom 5705
Software
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition (2.6.15-26-amd64-server SMP)
MySQL 5.0.26 with Peter Zaitsev Mutex Patch
SPECjbb2005
Sun Hotspot Java JVM 1.5.0_08
A lot of people gave us assistance with this project, and we would of course like to thank them.
Trevor E. Lawless, Intel US
Matty Bakkeren, Intel Netherlands
Markus Weingartner, Intel Germany
(www.intel.com)
Damon Muzny, AMD US
(www.amd.com)
Angela Rosario, Supermicro US
Michael Kalodrich, Supermicro US
Peter Yang, Supermicro US
(http://www.supermicro.com)
Peter Zaitsev, Elite MySQL Guru
(www.mysql.com)
Bob Cramblitt and Larry D. Gray
(www.spec.org)
Brecht Kets, MySQL patching and tuning
Pieter Beel, SPECjbb benchmarking
Anja Gheldof, MySQL benchmarking
Tijl Deneut, Linux support
Benchmark configuration
In case you're wondering why we chose to use the fastest Xeon DP, the second fastest Xeon MP, and the second fastest Opteron, the reason is simple: those were the CPUs that were made available to us. As always, both AMD and Intel were contacted for this test. If a manufacturer has questions about any of our benchmarks, it is discussed and if necessary the manufacturer is allowed to login to our servers and monitor our benchmarking. This allows us to use our own benchmarks and not only industry standard benchmarks, which easily fall victim of "extreme" and in some cases "non-realistic" tuning....
Hardware configurations
Here is the list of the different configurations:
Xeon Server 1: Dual Xeon DP Supermicro SS6015b-8+
Dual Xeon DP 5160 3 GHz
Intel 5000P chipset
Supermicro's X7DBR-8+
8GB (8x1024 MB) Micron FB - DIMM Registered DDR-II 533 MHz CAS 4, ECC enabled
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Xeon Server 2: Quad Xeon MP Intel SR6850HW4
Quad Xeon MP 7130M 3.2 GHz 8MB L3
Intel 8501 chipset
16GB (8x2048 MB) Micron Registered DDR-II PC2-3200R, 400 MHz CAS 3, ECC enabled
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Opteron Server 1: Quad Opteron HP DL585
Quad Opteron 880 2.4 GHz
AMD8000 Chipset
16GB (16x1048 MB) Crucial DDR333 CAS 2.5, ECC enabled
NIC: NC7782 Dual PCI-X Gigabit
2 Seagate Cheetah 73GB - 15000 rpm - SCSI 320 MB/s
Client Configuration: Dual Opteron 850
Dual Opteron 850 1.8 GHz
MSI K8T Master1-FAR
4x512 MB Infineon PC2700 Registered, ECC
NIC: Broadcom 5705
Software
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition (2.6.15-26-amd64-server SMP)
MySQL 5.0.26 with Peter Zaitsev Mutex Patch
SPECjbb2005
Sun Hotspot Java JVM 1.5.0_08
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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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