PowerEdge Servers are tested and benchmarked in a wide range of tests to demonstrate the performance capabilities of the systems with different types of workloads.

Dell PowerEdge 2950 III achieves the best performance/watt on the new SPECpower_ssj 2008 benchmark (for systems shipping as of December 2007)

Dell PowerEdge 2970 surpasses tested IBM and HP servers on floating point performance

Dell PowerEdge 2970 Energy Smart betters tested IBM and HP servers with the best performance per watt on floating point performance

Dell Servers Gets Top Scores on VMmark Virtualization Performance

Dell PowerEdge 1950/R900 Achieve Top Application Server/Database 2-Node Performance

Virtualization Performance of Dell PowerEdge Servers using the VMmark benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 6950 Sets Record for 4-socket Price/Performance

Dell PowerEdge 2900 Sets Dual Processor Record for TPC-H 100GB Data Warehousing Performance Benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 2950 Sets Dual Processor Record for SPECjbb2005 Benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 2900 Leads in TPC-C Benchmark Price/Performance

New Dell PowerEdge 2950 Outperforms HP and IBM in Exchange Server 2003 Benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 1950 Sets Dual Processor Record for SPECweb2005 Benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 6800 Sets Record for Cluster Performance in TPC-H 300GB Data Warehousing Performance Benchmark

Dell PowerEdge 6800 Sets Record for Performance in TPC-H 100GB Data Warehousing Performance Benchmark

New Multi-core PowerEdge Servers Deliver Greater Performance for Microsoft Exchange

Need more information? See Understanding Performance Benchmarks In addition, many performance articles and system optimization discussions can be found in the performance section of Dell PowerSolutions. DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers are the right tools to develop your Scalable Enterprise. Dell delivers the technology advantage customers need through a combination of high performance and scalability. These benchmarks help demonstrate the advantages of an industry-standard approach to scaling your enterprise to build the infrastructure of the future. This comprehensive customer guide to using the appropriate server benchmarks provides recommendations based on the application types that customers are running on their servers.