HP DL380 generations comparison
Comparing difference generations of HP DL380 servers


G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 300GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 3601GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Monitor: Smart Cable, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe

	OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4

G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL380 G4, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 1045GB

	OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 2348.54 |=====================================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 635.05  |==========


SQLite 3.7.3
Test Target: Default Test Directory
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 6.54   |
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 659.82 |======================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 12.16 |===================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 25.34 |=======================================


Loopback TCP Network Performance
Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 21.07 |=======================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 26.98  |=========
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 117.84 |======================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 7.54  |========
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 37.74 |=======================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 17.93 |==============================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 22.99 |=======================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 20.03 |======================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 35.73 |=======================================


GnuPG 1.4.10
1GB File Encryption
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 12.37 |============================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 17.52 |=======================================


System XZ Decompression
Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1
Seconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 6.49 |========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 537.10 |======================================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 69.90  |=====


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 7412.27 |=====================================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 59.81   |


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 3726 |=======================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 6607 |========================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 17373.38 |====================================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 4954.82  |==========


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
G8 E5-2620v2 16GB 4x10K RAID10 . 67968 |=======================================
G4 2x3.60GHz 12GB 4x15K RAID5 .. 36141 |=====================