TPC-C Price/Performance – Four-Socket Servers 
 
TPC-C and Price/tmpC are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. The results stated below reflect results published on http://www.tpc.org as of January 2, 2009. The comparison presented below is based on the best performing four-socket servers using x86 processors with specified power of less than or equal to 95W TDP or 75W ACP (AMD) or 130W TDP (Intel). For the latest TPC-C results, visit http://www.tpc.org.

Configuration Information:

4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Shanghai") Model 8384 in HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server, 256GB memory, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_ProLiant_DL585G5_2.7GHz_es.pdf

4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors ("Barcelona") Model 8356 in HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server, 128GB memory, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_ProLiant_DL585G5_2.3GHz_es.pdf

4 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Model 8216 in HP ProLiant DL585 server, 128GB memory, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, IBM DB2 v8.2
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_DL585_4P_2.4DC_DB2_ES.PDF

4 x Hex-Core Intel Xeon processors ("Dunnington") Model X7460 in HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server, 256GB memory, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_ProLiant_DL580G5_2.67GHz_es.pdf