Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R6725 Deliver World Record VMmark 4.0 results
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Abstract
The Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R6725 servers, equipped with AMD® EPYC® 5th Generation processors, achieved 4 world records in the VMmark 4.0 benchmark.
VMmark 4.0.x results
The following World Record results were achieved in VMmark 4.0.1:
Table 1. VMmark 4.0 Results
Workload | Perfomance | Dell PowerEdge Server | World Record |
VMmark® 4.0.x | 4.53 @ 5 tiles | R7725 | Best 512 total cores performance |
VMmark® 4.0.x | 5.17 @ 5.8 tiles | R7725 | Best 768 total cores performance |
VMmark® 4.0.x | 3.89 @ 4.6 tiles | R6725 | Best 384 total cores performance |
VMmark® 4.0.x | 5.17 @ 5.8 tiles | R7725 | Best overall SAN score |
What do these scores mean?
VMware is the most prevalent hypervisor and virtualization solution in the enterprise space. Demonstrating a world record performance in virtualized workloads illustrates the suitability of Dell PowerEdge two socket 5th Gen AMD solutions for deployment in modern enterprise solutions.
Notes
- Results referenced are current as of August 22nd, 2024.
About the Dell PowerEdge 5th Gen AMD based Servers
The Dell PowerEdge two socket enterprise AMD EPYC 5th gen powered servers – the R6725 and R7725 – are an ideal solution for organizations requiring industry-leading compute performance. Both these servers feature support for DDR5 memory technology, PCIe Gen5 storage devices, and support for air cooled CPUs up to 400W in the R6725 or 500W in the R7725. Additionally, two different CPU core architectures are available for these servers at launch. Zen5 CPUs offer maximum per core performance and Zen5c CPUs provide high performance, efficiency, and remarkable density with up to 192 cores per CPU.
Figure 1. PowerEdge R7725
Key configuration details
We tested 2 node configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R6725 to achieve these World Record results. Additionally, an external NVMe storage array was leveraged in this testing.
Best 768 Total Core and Best Overall SAN Performance Configuration, Dell PowerEdge R7725
2x AMD® EPYC® 9965 192 Zen5c cores at 2.0GHz
- 384 cores per node total
- 2 Node (4 Socket) test configuration
- 24x 96GB DDR5 @6000MT/s, 2304GB total capacity per node
- Dell PowerStore 5000T, 16 x 7.7TB NVMe SSD + 5 x 3.84TB NVMe SSD
Best 512 Core Performance Configuration, Dell PowerEdge R7725
2x AMD® EPYC® 9755 128 Zen5 cores at 2.7GHz
- 256 cores per node total
- 2 Node (4 Socket) test configuration
- 24x 96GB DDR5 @6000MT/s, 2304GB total capacity per node
- Dell PowerStore 5000T, 16 x 7.7TB NVMe SSD + 5 x 3.84TB NVMe SSD
Best 384 Core Performance Configuration, Dell PowerEdge R6725
2x AMD® EPYC® 9655 96 Zen5 cores at 2.6GHz
- 256 cores per node total
- 2 Node (4 Socket) test configuration
- 24x 96GB DDR5 @6000MT/s, 2304GB total capacity per node
- Dell PowerStore 5000T, 6 x 7.7TB NVMe SSD
What is VMmark?
VMmark is a free benchmarking tool developed by VMware to measure the performance, scalability, and power consumption of virtualization platforms. It uses a tile-based design to simulate various workloads, such as Java applications, databases, Kubernetes, Docker containers, NoSQL, and social network applications12.
VMmark allows hardware vendors and other users to:
- Accurately benchmark virtual data center performance.
- Compare the performance of different virtualization platforms.
- Assess the impact of changes in hardware, software, or configuration within a virtualized environment.