Dell PowerEdge HS5610 Performance
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Summary
Dell delivers technology optimization without the financial and operational burden of supporting extreme configurations. Dell PowerEdge cloud-scale servers are designed and optimized to give you the ability to scale with server configurations built for CSPs. The servers scale up to two sockets, 32 cores each, 1 TB of memory, and various SAS, SATA, and NVMe storage options. Cloud-scale servers also offer Dell Open Server Manager built on open-source OpenBMC systems management software.
Test configuration
Server | PowerEdge R650xs | PowerEdge HS5610 |
CPU | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5318Y | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5418Y |
Memory | 16 x 32 GB at 2933 MT/s | 16 x 32 GB at 4400 MT/s |
Storage | 4 x 960 GB SATA drives | |
RAID controller | H755 Front RAID 5 | |
Operating system | Ubuntu 22.04 TLS |
Database benchmark—Redis
Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, HyperLogLogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. Redis has integrated replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions, and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability through Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.
To achieve top performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, Redis can persist your data either by periodically dumping the dataset to disk or by appending each command to a disk-based log. You can also disable persistence if you just need a feature-rich, networked, in-memory cache.
Redis supports asynchronous replication, with fast nonblocking synchronization and auto-reconnection with partial resynchronization on net split.
Results:
- The data provided highlights the performance of each system running a typical SET command to modify data in the schema in memory. This test leverages AVX512 extensions on both 15G and 16G systems. Relative performance uplift on our 16G configuration was strongly influenced by the increased memory bandwidth provided by DDR5.
- Dell PowerEdge HS5610 database performance improved by 35 percent compared to the previous generation. Veeva claim ID: CLM-007679
- The Dell PowerEdge HS5610 offers a 33 percent increase in price performance per CPU dollar when compared to the previous generation. Veeva claim ID: CLM‑007681
- Dell PowerEdge HS5610 performance has increased by 28 percent per watt compared to the previous generation with Redis database benchmark. Veeva claim ID: CLM-007680
CPU benchmark—V-Ray 5
V-Ray Benchmark is a free, stand-alone application that can be used to test how fast your system renders. It’s simple and fast, and includes three render engine tests:
- V-Ray—CPU compatible
- V-Ray GPU CUDA—GPU and CPU compatible
- V-Ray GPU RTX—RTX GPU compatible
Three custom-built test scenarios are also included to put each V-Ray 5 render engine through its paces.
Discover how your computer ranks alongside others and learn how different hardware combinations can boost your rendering speeds.
Results:
- The data provided highlights the performance of each system running a CPU benchmark with V-Ray using the number of vsamples. Higher is better.
- PowerEdge HS5610 has 15 percent more CPU rendering compared to the previous generation. Veeva claim ID: CLM-007677
Memory benchmark—STREAM
The STREAM benchmark is a simple synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth (in MB/s) and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels.
Computer CPUs are getting faster much more quickly than computer memory systems. As these gains progress, an increasing number of programs will be limited in performance by the memory bandwidth of the system, rather than by the computational performance of the CPU.
As an extreme example, several current high-end machines run simple arithmetic kernels for out-of-cache operands at 4 to 5 percent of their rated peak speeds. That means that they are spending 95 to 96 percent of their time idle and waiting for cache misses to be satisfied.
The STREAM benchmark is specifically designed to work with datasets much larger than the available cache on any given system, so that the results are (presumably) more indicative of the performance of very large, vector-style applications.
Results:
- The Copy benchmark measures the transfer rate in the absence of arithmetic. This should be one of the fastest memory operations, but it also represents a common one—fetching two values from memory, a(i) and b(i), and updating one operation.
- PowerEdge HS5610 has 25 percent more memory bandwidth than the similarly configured previous-generation system. Veeva claim ID: CLM-007678
Conclusion
Our engineers select the appropriate benchmarks in coordination with your team. Then, using the benchmarks, we perform iterative testing in a Dell Technologies performance lab to analyze the effects of specific server settings and hardware configurations on a benchmark. This data-driven approach with engineers specializing in PowerEdge system performance allows Dell to identify the optimal system configuration for a given workload and provide guidance that delivers rapid time to value for our cloud customers.
Legal disclosures
- Testing conducted by Dell Server TME Lab March of 2023. Server performance benchmarks were performed on similarly configured Dell PowerEdge HS5610 vs Dell PowerEdge R650xs. See documentation for test and configuration specifics. Actual results will vary by use.
- Testing conducted by Dell Server TME Lab March of 2023. Server performance benchmarks were performed on similarly configured Dell PowerEdge HS5610 vs Dell PowerEdge R650xs. See documentation for test and configuration specifics. The CPU price was based on Intel.com site per March 29, 2023, for Gold 5318Y and 5418Y. Actual results will vary by use.