Real example of CPU progressing in the data centre

[SupraWez]

Hey All,

Was working on some kit today which involved moving some VMs around due to an old server being removed for power issues.

The server where the VMs resided had a pair of Xeon 5160 (2006) and the newer server a single E5506 (2009), while moving the VMs I decided to do a quick compare and noticed that there isn't much difference between the CPUs, in fact the older CPU had better single core performance score and higher L2 cache

The 5160`s are in a HP DL380 G5 while the single E5506 is a HP DL380 G7.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5506-vs-Intel-Xeon-5160

What are peoples thoughts on this

 

[muon]

Massive clock difference? Nehalem wasn't that much of a leap over Core.

 

[Journey]

What are peoples thoughts on this

They are both rubbish and well out of date.

I hope these were/are not being used in a day-to-day business, as the cost of running out of date tech over many years is usually more than paying for newer kit.

 

[HellDiverUK]

At work, we still use a PowerEdge 2950 that I installed shortly after I started working here. November 2007. Yep, 12 years later, it's still trucking. It's just used as warm storage of old company files.

The main server is a PowerEdge R515 with a pair of slow-ass 6 core Opterons.

 

[SupraWez]

They are both rubbish and well out of date.

Indeed they both are very old and rubbish but most DC`s have a mixture of old and new and these are old

 

[Gammawolf]

My thoughts are to stop using cpuboss, the way they rank it is well out of wack due to combining various scores from single/multi thread across various different tests

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-E5506-vs-Intel-Xeon-5160/1241vs1187

Depends on workload but newer processor seems better for a VM environment given same 80w TDP, 100% more cores, 33% lower clocks which results in a 50% higher multi threaded score.