A Look At The Xeon Gold 6138 + Tyan GT24E-B7106 1U Linux Server Performance

Lastly for today's benchmarking is a look at the AC system power consumption between these two Intel Xeon 1U servers. While the Tyan Thunder CX GT24E-B7106 is much more powerful with its Xeon Gold processors, the minimum power use is an impressive nearly 70 Watts lower than the dual Nehalem EP platform while the average power draw is 10 Watts lower. The peak power draw with the Tyan server is only 23 Watts higher.

While having five times the cores/threads of the older system, the Tyan Thunder CX GT24E-B7106 was also running much cooler over the duration of these tests. The Tyan 1U server was peaking higher at times under load, but quickly receded as soon as the loads let up and wasn't hitting the upper limits for too long of durations thanks to the six 40mm fans quickly kicking in.

Using the Seek Thermal I did also look some thermal images. The Tyan Thunder GT24E-B7106 appeared to do a fine job dissipating the heat and I hadn't noticed any problems nor did the chassis ever become too hot.

As a reminder, if you wish to compare your own Linux desktops/workstations/servers to the results found in this article, it's trivial to do with our open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking paired with OpenBenchmarking.org that takes care of the process from test downloads and setup to execute all in an automated and standardized process. With the Phoronix Test Suite installed, simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1708237-TY-TYANXEON474. Or for comparing to the results between the dual socket systems, simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1708224-TY-TYANSUN7991.

That's it for today's testing of the Tyan GT24E-B7106. Coming up in the days ahead are still a number of other interesting tests with this Xeon Scalable server from seeing how the performance compares to various public cloud instances, how different enterprise Linux distributions compare performance-wise on this Tyan server, core/memory scaling on Linux, some server disk/caching tests, and a number of other interesting benchmarks currently being worked on. And yes, some Linux vs. BSD server benchmarks. If you have any other interesting test requests, be sure to let us know!