Dell Performance

Dell Versus Sun Servers: PowerEdge R910 and R810 Comparison

Date : 3/1/2010
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To compare the processor performance of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R910 and R810 servers to the Sun™ SPARC Enterprise M4000 and T5240 servers, Principled Technologies, Inc. used the SPECint_rate_base2006 test of the industry-standard SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite.

The Dell PowerEdge R910 server outperformed the Sun SPARC servers by 157.4 percent and 104.7 percent, and the Dell PowerEdge R810 outperformed the Sun SPARC servers by 165.4 percent and 111.1 percent. The results are as follows:

  • The Dell PowerEdge R910 and R810 servers achieved SPECint_rate_base2006 scores of 350 and 361 respectively.
  • The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and T5240 achieved a SPECfp_rate_base2006 score of 136 and 171 respectively.