Summary

Dell PowerEdge T560, with 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, boosts performance by up to 114% compared to the prior-gen T550 with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors[1]. This document presents gen-over-gen CPU benchmarks for three common T560 CPU configurations, and highlights key features that enable enterprises to host a diverse set of workloads.

Advanced technology with accelerators

From retail, hospitality, and restaurants, to small healthcare, businesses continue to rely on tower servers to enable their day-to-day operations. IDC forecasts $2 billion in worldwide tower server spending for 2024.[2]

The Dell PowerEdge T560 exceeds these business needs while fitting where other servers cannot – under desks, in closets, tucked in any available space. It drives key enterprise workloads, including traditional business applications, virtualization, and data analytics. For customers looking to capture the advantages of AI, the T560 is also tuned to power medium duty AI or ML tailored inferencing algorithms that drive more timely and accurate business insights. In fact, the T560 has 20% more GPU capacity compared to prior-gen T550.

The table below details the gen-over-gen feature improvements that support the T560’s faster, more powerful, and balanced performance:

Table 1.  PowerEdge T550 vs T560 key features

Performance data

We captured three benchmarks -- SPEC CPU, High-Performance Linpack (HPL), and STREAM -- to compare performance across three T550 3rd Generation Intel Xeon processors and two T560 4th Generation Intel Xeon processors. We report SPEC CPU’s fprate base metric which measures throughput in terms of work per unit of time. HPL is measured in Gflops, or floating-point operations per second, which assesses overall computational power. STREAM captures memory bandwidth in MB/s.

The tests were performed in the Dell Solutions Performance Analysis (SPA) Lab in March 2023. The following gen-over-gen comparisons represent common Intel CPU configurations for T550 and T560 customers, respectively:

Table 2.  Selected CPUs for T550 vs T560 performance comparison

All tested T560 CPU configurations across both the SPEC CPU and HPL Benchmark demonstrate a greater than 47% performance uplift, gen over gen. Most notably, just one Intel Xeon 4410Y (12 core) processor in the T560 performed 114% better than two prior-gen 4309Y processors (16 cores total) in the T550. For these same processors, the HPL benchmark saw a performance uplift of 78%, and STREAM saw an uplift of up to 57%.

Figure 1.  Three CPU comparisons demonstrating gen-over-gen performance uplift for SPEC CPU benchmark

Figure 2.  Three CPU comparisons demonstrating gen-over-gen performance uplift for HPL benchmark

Conclusion

For customers looking to upgrade their tower server, the Dell PowerEdge T560 captures up to 114% better performance over the prior-gen. Combined with its increased GPU capacity and 1.5x faster memory, the T560 gives enterprises the freedom to expand and explore AI/ML workloads while still powering its core business operations.

References

• IDC Worldwide Server Forecast 2023-2027