SPECint®_rate2006 – Four-Socket SE Server Performance Improvement 
 
The table below shows the SPECint®_rate2006 performance improvement that can be achieved with enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. For instance, a 160% performance improvement can be achieved with 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8386 SE compared to 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8220 SE (256 score vs. 98.3 score).
SPEC and SPECint 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 four-socket servers using AMD processors with specified power of 119W TDP or 105W ACP. For the latest SPECint_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/.

Configuration Information:

98.3 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8220 SE in HP ProLiant DL585 G2 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 2 x 72GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 9 SP3 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q1/cpu2006-20070305-00630.html

110 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8222 SE in Dell PowerEdge 6950 server, 32GB (16x2GB DDR2-667) memory, 250GB SATA disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080710-04726.html

119 score using 4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8224 SE in Sun Fire X4440 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-667) memory, 72GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q2/cpu2006-20080331-04035.html

189 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8358 SE in Dell PowerEdge R905 server, 32GB (8x4GB DDR2-667) memory, 73GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080710-04726.html

199 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8360 SE in HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-667) memory, 146GB SAS disk drive, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1 64-bit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q3/cpu2006-20080707-04715.html

256 score using 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8386 SE in Tyan Transport TX46 motherboard, 64GB (16x4GB DDR2-800) memory, 250GB SATA disk drive, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Server release 5.2 64-bit