Tyan Tiger i7500: E7500 meets ATX

The Test

The only two E7500 motherboards we had for this comparison were both made by Tyan - the Tiger i7500 and the Thunder i7500. The two perform identically, thus severely limiting our performance comparison. However in order to give you an idea of what sort of performance to expect from this platform, we've updated our transactional database server tests with scores from the new 2.80GHz Xeon processors with Hyper-Threading enabled on the Tyan Tiger i7500 (we're in the process of updating our Forums DB performance test so the scores are absent from this review).

We also rounded up the Tiger i7500 and its closest chipset competitor, ServerWorks' GE-HE and compared memory bandwidth figures using Stream:

As you can see, the E7500 isn't able to provide as much memory bandwidth as the GC chipsets even though both solutions are using dual channel DDR memory controllers. For most ultra high-end enterprise applications, the E7500 cannot compete with the ServerWorks solutions because of the need for quad channel DDR (the GC-HE also supports quad-channel DDR) memory and higher bandwidth PCI-X bridges. For the entry-level to midrange segment however, the E7500 does stand a chance.

Now let's finish things off with a quick look at how the 2.80GHz Xeon improves performance over the 2.40GHz parts we last tested in our home brewed DB server tests:

AnandTech Website Database Performance Transactions per Second Intel Xeon 2.80GHz x 2 (HT Enabled) Intel Xeon 2.40GHz x 2 (HT Enabled) AMD Athlon MP 2200+ (1.80GHz) x 2 880.9 806.7 737.1 | 0 | 176 | 352 | 529 | 705 | 881 | 1057

AnandTech Ad Database Performance Transactions per Second Intel Xeon 2.80GHz x 2 (HT Enabled) Intel Xeon 2.40GHz x 2 (HT Enabled) AMD Athlon MP 2200+ (1.80GHz) x 2 650.5 649.4 644.4 | 0 | 130 | 260 | 390 | 520 | 651 | 781