Testurteil: "7/10"
Test: Einzeltest: Intel Xeon X7560: Nehalem EX
Zitat: It’s hard to draw a solid conclusion on the Xeon X7560 and Nehalem EX in general with so little comparative data to analyze. In theory for example, AMD’s brand new Opteron 6000-series does also support four CPUs in a single server, but as yet, no quad-socket motherboards have been seen in the wild. What’s clear though is that despite the massive performance boost provided by moving from the ageing Core 2 to Nehalem architecture, the Xeon 7500-series is far from suitable for all professional systems. In fact we’d say that even in a dual-processor configuration, a pair of Xeon X5600-series CPUs will deliver far greater performance in most workstation applications, cost less to buy and cost far less to run too. Even for the server market, the Xeon 7500-series is a very specialist product, and so is only worth investigating if you’re workloads scale very well across multiple cores, but cannot be distributed across multiple servers. Folding@home for example ticks both these boxes, but as multiple dual-processor servers would be cheaper than one quad-processor Xeon 7500-series server, you’d be far better off running the former. That said, there will undoubtedly be some users, such as those running huge financial models, which will really benefit from the brute processing power delivered by four Xeon 7500-series CPUs. After all, cramming 64 execution units and up to 1TB of RAM in a 4U unit running a single OS is a great step forward for the server market, especially as the folding benchmark revealed, the Xeon 7500-series is so much faster than the previous-generation Xeon 7400-series.
