SPECfp®_rate2006 – Two-Socket HE Server Performance Improvement 
SPECfp®_rate2006 – Two-Socket HE Server Performance Improvement 
The table below shows the SPECfp®_rate2006 performance improvement that can be achieved with enhanced Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processors. For instance, a 46% performance improvement can be achieved with 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 2376 HE compared to 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 2344 HE (108 score vs. 74.0 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 12, 2009. The comparison presented below is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD processors with specified power of 55W ACP. For the latest SPECfp_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/.

Configuration Information:

74.0 score using 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 2344 HE in Dell PowerEdge M805 server, 16GB (8x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 73GB SATA disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q4/cpu2006-20081013-05645.html

76.8 score using 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 2346 HE in Fujitsu Siemens Computers CELSIUS V840, 16GB (8x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 400GB SATA disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080620-04595.html

78.8 score using 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 2347 HE in IBM BladeCenter LS22 server, 32GB (8x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080811-05002.html

108 score using 2 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 2376 HE in Supermicro A+ Server 1021M-UR+B motherboard, 32GB (8x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 250GB SATA disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit