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• Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP) and SQL Server 2012 Benchmarks

  Intel officially announced the Xeon E5 2600 series processor based on Sandy Bridge-EP variant with upto 8 cores and 20MB LLC per socket. Only one TPC benchmark accompanied product launch, summary below. Processors Cores per Frequency Memory SQL Vendor Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:53 PM by jchang | 1 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Xeon, Benchmarks

• TPC-H Benchmarks - Westmere-EX versus RISC

  There has been relatively litle activity in TPC Benchmarks recently with the exception of the raft of Dell TPC-H results with Exa Solutions. It could be that systems today are so powerful that few people feel the need for benchmarks. IBM published an Read More... Posted Monday, October 10, 2011 5:03 PM by jchang | 5 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, Benchmarks

• IBM System x3850 X5 TPC-H Benchmark

  IBM just published a TPC-H SF 1000 result for their x3850 X5 , 4-way Xeon 7560 system featuring a special MAX5 memory expansion board to support 1.5TB memory. In Dec 2010, IBM also published a TPC-H SF1000 for their Power 780 system, 8-way, quad-core, Read More... Posted Friday, March 4, 2011 5:04 PM by jchang | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, Benchmarks

• Benchmark Update - Astounding Fujitsu RX900 8-way Xeon 7560 TPC-E Scaling

  Fujitsu just published an astounding TPC-E benchmark result of 3,800 tpsE for their 8-way Xeon 7560 system, the Primergy RX900 S1. Fujitsu had previously published a TPC-E result of 2046.96 for their 4-way Xeon 7560 system, the Primergy RX600 S5. The Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:13 PM by jchang | 13 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, Benchmarks

• Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) and 7500 (Nehalem-EX) and AMD Magny-Cours

  Intel launched the Xeon 5600 series (Westmere-EP, 32nm) six-core processors on 16 March 2010 without any TPC benchmark results. In the performance world, no results almost always mean bad or not good results. Yet there is every reason to believe that Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010 11:34 PM by jchang | 9 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Benchmarks