test 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 testing with a Dell 0H723K and AMD ATI ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0H723K, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 299GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: AMD ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: Philips 150S, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.18.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 1863.00 |========================================== IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 134.58 |=========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 2286 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 6515.07 |========================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 6235.37 |========================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 5858.91 |========================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 5740.35 |========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 16.21 |============================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 7.94 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 5483 |============================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 108 |============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 778.85 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 42.26 |============================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 7.54 |============================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 3000 Fall Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 10.53 |============================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 2.88 |============================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 239.17 |=========================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 133.91 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 26.48 |============================================ FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 24.29 |============================================ POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 1222 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 54.50 |============================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 1302.25 |========================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 19836.13 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 14115.57 |========================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better PERC 6 - Intel Xeon E5420 . 53065 |============================================