{"id":870,"date":"2014-03-05T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=870"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:52:25","slug":"two-new-tpc-e-benchmark-results-for-intel-xeon-ivy-bridge-ex-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/two-new-tpc-e-benchmark-results-for-intel-xeon-ivy-bridge-ex-processors\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New TPC-E Benchmark Results for Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge-EX Processors"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, two new TPC-E benchmark submissions<\/a> showed up for four-socket servers with the new 22nm, 15-core Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 processor<\/a> that I discussed a few days ago<\/a>. NEC submitted a result for a four-socket NEC Express5800\/A2040b<\/a> system with a raw TPC-E score of 5,087.17, while IBM submitted a result for a four-socket IBM System x3850 X6<\/a> system with a raw TPC-E score of 5,576.27.<\/p>\n

These are both incredible scores for a four-socket system, both for the actual raw score and from a score per physical core perspective. Both of these tested systems have actual TPC-E scores that rival an eight-socket system with the previous generation 32nm Intel Xeon E7-4870<\/a> Westmere-EX processor, while their single-threaded performance (as measured by the TPC-E score divided by the number of physical cores) is also relatively close to what we see in the latest 22nm Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2<\/a> Ivy Bridge-EP processors. This gives you the possibility of eight-socket capacity, with close to modern two-socket single-threaded performance in a four-socket server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
System<\/td>\nProcessor<\/td>\nTPC-E Score<\/td>\nSockets<\/td>\nTotal Cores<\/td>\nScore\/Core<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IBM System x3650 M4<\/td>\nE5-2697 v2<\/td>\n2590.93<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n107.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IBM System x3850 X6<\/td>\nE7-4890 v2<\/td>\n5576.27<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n92.94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IBM System x3850 X5<\/td>\nE7-4870<\/td>\n3218.46<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n80.46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IBM System X3850 X5<\/td>\nE7-8870<\/td>\n5457.20<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n68.22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Table 1: Recent IBM TPC-E Benchmark scores<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you can see from Table 1, the Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 processor is a huge improvement over the previous Intel Xeon E7-4870 processor, with much higher overall capacity and higher single-threaded performance. You also get much higher memory capacity and PCI-E 3.0 support with the new processor.<\/p>\n

On the negative side, your SQL Server 2012\/2014 core license costs will be 50% higher if you go with the high-end 15-core E7-4890 v2 processor. One alternative would be to use the 12-core, Xeon E7-4860 v2 processor<\/a> or even the ten-core, Xeon E7-4830 v2 processor<\/a> to minimize your SQL Server 2012\/2014 license costs. One slight problem with that strategy is that the base and turbo clock speeds are lower in the lower core-count processors in the Xeon E7-48xx v2 product family, since they don\u2019t have lower core count, \u201cfrequency-optimized\u201d models like the Xeon E5-26xx v2 product family does.<\/p>\n

Four-socket systems with these new processors are going to be much faster and have much more total load capacity than previous four-socket systems with the older Westmere-Ex processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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