Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Haswell Performance

The new Phoronix.com web server is speeding along this weekend after its deployment. Here's a look in the performance difference.

You should be seeing faster response times when visiting Phoronix.com, though today still working on some last-minute server setup changes and other configuration differences, so there may be a few slowdowns or couple minutes of downtime still today. However, going forward, the experience should be much better.

The previous main Phoronix.com server was a single Intel Xeon E5-2620 "Sandy Bridge" server while the new server is a dual Xeon E5-2620 v3 "Haswell" model. There's also now 96GB of RAM rather than 32GB of RAM, an 800GB Intel SSD and 2TB SATA HDD, etc. Both the new and old servers are powered by CentOS 6.6. Both servers are hosted with HiVelocity.

Via our open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software, I ran some basic tests of the old and new server and shared them on OpenBenchmarking.org.
Embedded below are just a few of the old and new server benchmark results for a variety of workloads, but you can view all of the results in full via this large OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

Again, stop by Openbenchmarking.org to see all of the results in full. You can also compare your own server's performance by installing the Phoronix Test Suite and running phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1504267-BE-1504172BE03.

This new web server setup is separate from our basement Linux server performance testing room that's also already being upgraded.