Sun Blade x8400 beats IBM Power5+ p5 505Q & p5 550
Wednesday Sep 06, 2006
Some great new results...
- The 4-way Sun Blade x8400 with 2.6 GHz Opteron beat the 4-way IBM p5 505Q with 1.65 GHz POWER5+ by 55%.
- The 4-way Sun Blade x8400 with 2.6 GHz Opteron beat the 4-way IBM p5 550 with 1.9 GHz POWER5+ by 70%.
Benchmark Description
The SAP Standard Application SD (Sales and Distribution) Benchmark is a two-tier ERP business test that is indicative of full business workloads of complete order processing and invoice processing, and demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system. The SAP Standard Application SD Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments.
SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competetive systems on the various SAP products.
SAP has specified that the Benchmark Users metric is the only metric to be used for public comparisons. However, Benchmark Users can be traded off with response time in performance tuning, and so comparing Line Items per Hour or SAPS is a better way to compare the actual power of systems.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Results Benchmark Users (bigger is better, in decreasing performance order)
| System | Users | Procs | Type | GHz | Memory | OS | Database | LI/Hr | SAPS | SAPS/Proc | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Blade x8400 | 1700 | 4 | Opteron | 2.6 | 32 GB | Windows Server 2003 EE | SQLServer 2005 | 170,330 | 8,520 | 2130 | 21-Aug-06 |
| IBM p5 505Q | 1100 | 4 | POWER5+ | 1.65 | 16 GB | AIX 5.3 | DB2 UDB 9.1 | 110,330 | 5,520 | 1,380 | 25-Jul-06 |
| IBM p5 550 | 1000 | 4 | POWER5+ | 1.9 | 32 GB | SuSE Linux ES9 | DB2 UDB 8.2.2 | 100,330 | 5,020 | 1,255 | 04-Oct-05 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Server Under Test:
One, Sun Blade x8400
- 4 x AMD Opteron 885/2.6GHz, 2x128 KB L1 cache, 2x1MB L2 cache
- 32 GB memory
- Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Disk Storage includes 2 Controller Trays, 2 RAID Controller cards, 2x14x73GB 10Krpm
- 1x PCI-E 4Gb Dual FC HBA (Summit Qlogic)
- Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
- SAP ECC Release: 5.0
- SQL Server 2005 64bit
Software:
See Also: SAP Benchmark Website
| Certified Results | |||
| Performance: | 1700 benchmark users | ||
| Server: | Sun Blade x8400 | ||
| Processors: | 4 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 885 | ||
| Memory: | 32 GB | ||
| Operating system: | Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition | ||
| Database S/W: | SQLServer 2005 64bit | ||
| SAP S/W: | SAP ECC 5.0 | ||
| SAP Certification: | 2006059 | ||
| Storage: | Sun StorEdge 3510 | ||
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP ECC 5.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Sun Blade x8400 (4-way, 4 proc, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4x 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 885, 32 GB mem, 1700 SD benchmark users, 1.97 sec avg response time, Cert#2006059., SQL Server 2005 database, Windows Server 2003 EE; IBM System eServer p5 505Q (4-way, 4 processors, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4x 1.65 GHz POWER5+, 16GB mem, 1,100 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006046, IBM DB2 Universal Database 9.1, AIX 5.3; IBM System eServer p5 550 (4-way, 4 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4x 1.9 GHz POWER5+, 32GB mem, 1,000 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2005040, IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2.2, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark.
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