{"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":"2026-07-08T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:34","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":"

A couple of weeks ago, two new TPC-E benchmark submissions showed up for four-socket servers with the new 22nm, 15-core Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 processor that I discussed a few days ago. NEC submitted a result for a four-socket NEC Express5800\/A2040b system with a raw TPC-E score of 5,087.17, while IBM submitted a result for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,201,24,156],"tags":[328,203],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivy-bridge-ex","category-nec","category-processors","category-sql-server-2014","tag-tpc-e","tag-xeon-e7-4800-v2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}