Save money, do more work, and use less energy with 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R760 servers
See the ReportTue, 10 Oct 2023 16:51:44 -0000
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Principled Technologies testing showed that a 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server featuring a Broadcom BCM57508-P2100G NIC delivered all three benefits vs. previous-generation PowerEdge servers
With economic uncertainty, volatile energy prices, and sustainability goals, many organizations are looking for ways to reduce their energy costs and consumption. At the same time, data proliferation and new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence require a large amount of processing power, leading to data centers running at higher power densities—creating more demand on cooling systems.
Principled Technologies (PT) compared the cost, performance, and power efficiency of three generations of Dell PowerEdge servers to show how organizations can potentially save money and accomplish more work by upgrading their older servers.
Using the memtier_benchmark to run 100 percent read workloads against a Redis database, PT measured the operations per second (Ops/s) and throughput (MB/s) of a 14th Generation Dell PowerEdge R740, a 15th Generation Dell PowerEdge R750, and a 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server. PT calculated the power efficiency (Ops/s/watt) of the devices using the results of their testing, as well as the performance per dollar of each solution (Ops/s/USD).
The PowerEdge R760 server processed 129.5 percent more Ops/s with 24.2 percent better power efficiency than the previous-generation servers, doing over twice as much work with nearly 25 percent better power efficiency than the R740. It also did significantly more work per dollar than the older servers, handling as much as 166.1 percent more Ops/s per dollar. Based on the results of these tests, organizations can improve power efficiency and performance while cutting costs by upgrading to the latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server with Broadcom NICs.
Server | Performance (Ops/s) | Throughput (MB/s) | Power (W) | Perf/W | Perf/USD |
PowerEdge R760 | 64,282,525.28 | 2,533.67 | 832.0 | 77,265.46 | 2,019.9 |
PowerEdge R750 | 49,215,573 | 1,936.3 | 696.1 | 70,698.44 | 1,610.3 |
PowerEdge R740 | 28,000,329.07 | 1,116.47 | 450.3 | 62,179.70 | 758.9 |