SPECfp®_rate2006 – Four-Socket Server Performance Improvement 
SPECfp®_rate2006 – Four-Socket Server Performance Improvement 

The table below shows the SPECfp®_rate2006 performance improvement that can be achieved with enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. For instance, a 192% performance improvement can be achieved with 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8384 compared to 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8212 (212 score vs. 72.7 score).

SPEC and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results stated below reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of January 2, 2009. The comparison presented below is based on the best performing four-socket servers using AMD processors. For the latest SPECfp_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/.

Configuration Information:

72.7 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8212 in IBM BladeCenter LS41 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070806-01680.html

77.4 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8214 in IBM BladeCenter LS41 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070802-01620.html

82.1 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8216 in IBM BladeCenter LS41 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070802-01624.html

88.0 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8218 in IBM BladeCenter LS41 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070719-01475.html

91.9 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8220 in IBM BladeCenter LS41 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070719-01479.html

143 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8350 in IBM System x3755 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080707-04710.html

150 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8354 in Dell PowerEdge M905 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 36GB SAS + 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080819-05086.html

161 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8356 in IBM System x3755 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080623-04648.html

193 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8378 in Dell PowerEdge M905 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q4/cpu2006-20081124-06062.html

197 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8380 in Dell PowerEdge M905 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 36GB SAS + 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q4/cpu2006-20081124-06058.html

208 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8382 in Dell PowerEdge M905 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q4/cpu2006-20081110-05971.html

212 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8384 in Dell PowerEdge M905 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 36GB SAS + 73GB disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q4/cpu2006-20081110-05969.html