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Can the Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 live up to its promises? To answer this question, Prowess compared SQL Server performance between older-generation and newer-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. Specifically, we compared the platforms and components shown in Table 1.
Table 1. System configurations used for Microsoft® SQL Server® performance testing
We performed the Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 and Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server testing on bare-metal servers only, with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.4 installed. (There was no virtualization layer.) In addition, we selected configurations that would represent typical deployments, rather than maxing out the systems. Both the older and newer Dell EMC PowerEdge platforms used in testing are available with higher CPU and memory specifications. Note that the Intel Xeon Gold 6330 processor in the Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 is Intel’s targeted replacement for the Intel Xeon Gold 6230 processor used in the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server. The newer processor offers more cores and supports more memory modules (DIMMs) at the same price. Table 2 shows the tested configurations compared to the highest available specifications for each platform.
Table 2. Table 2. Cores, memory DIMMs, and relative CPU pricing in configurations used for testing
2 Recommended customer pricing provided by Intel, as of July 22, 2021.
See ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/192437/intel-xeon-gold-6230-processor-27-5m-cache-2-10-ghz.html and ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/212458/intel-xeon-gold-6330-processor-42m-cache-2-00-ghz.html.