HPE ProLiant delivers 48 world records in performance and energy efficiency for enterprise workloads

October 10, 2024

HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver 35% higher performance and 25% better energy efficiency, compared to previous models, using new AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processors

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  • HPE ProLiant servers, featuring AMD EPYC processors, achieve 48 world records1, including 30 new world records1 on the HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors.
  • HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors surpass competitors in performance across data management, java, and virtualization workloads
  • Recently announced HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for edge environments and using AMD EPYC 8004 Processors, also achieved five new world records in compute performance and energy efficiency.4,5
  • Latest HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers are available now in select regions 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYE: HPE) announced today that HPE ProLiant servers, featuring AMD EPYC CPUs, have achieved 48 world records to date with the recently expanded HPE ProLiant Gen11 server portfolio. The latest HPE ProLiant servers, using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors, deliver up to 35% higher performance2 and 25% better energy efficiency3, compared to previous models, and achieved 30 world records, surpassing competitors in energy efficiency, and performance across enterprise workloads in data management, java, and virtualization.1

In addition, the recently announced HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for edge environments, using AMD EPYC 8004 Processors, also achieved five new world records in performance and energy efficiency.4,5

HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver undisputed performance for the enterprise

HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver next-generation compute engineered for the hybrid world and offer an intuitive cloud operating experience, trusted security by design, and optimization for a range of workloads. Using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers achieved 30 world records, which include:

  • Virtualization – Drive server consolidation and lower operational costs with 10.51% better performance on an AMD EPYC 9845-processor HPE ProLiant server6
  • Data management – Speed up database queries on decision support workloads
    •    41.4% better performance and 28.6% better price/performance on a two-processor server on Microsoft® SQL Server 2025 Enterprise Edition7
    • 16.2% better performance on a one-processor server on Microsoft® SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition8
  • Java – Optimize applications for emerging use cases across industries with a one-processor server in the following Java benchmarks9:
    • 29.4% better Linux performance on Multi-JVM Critical-jOPS
    • 24.6% better Linux performance on MultiJVM max-jOPS
    • 24.6% better Linux performance on Distributed max-jOPS
    •  21.6% better Linux performance on Distributed critical-jOPS

Driving optimal performance and efficiency for the edge with the affordable, compact, and resilient HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server

Recently announced HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for diverse edge locations such as retail stores, health clinics, banks, and factory lines, also achieved 5 world records4, 5, using AMD EPYC 8004 Processors. World claims include:

  • Overall compute performance - 8.2% higher performance than the current world record holder for optimal business value4
  • Energy efficiency – Better energy efficiency than the current Linux world record, resulting in reduced operating costs and support in helping customers achieve sustainability goals.5

    To learn more about the new HPE ProLiant servers, visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/proliant-servers.html

    HPE expands AI training solutions with the new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685

HPE also announced today at the AMD “Advancing AI” event, an expansion to its AI training solutions with the new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685. The system is purpose-built to accelerate large-scale AI training, such as Large Language Models used to create Generative AI applications.

The new system supports eight AMD Instinct™ MI325X or AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators, two of the latest AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors, and options for direct liquid cooling.

HPE also offers customers its world-leading services that provide global 24/7 support, remote or onsite, for the product’s entire lifecycle, from designing and developing to testing and deploying.

HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 is orderable today and will ship in early 2025. 

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service.  With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com

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1.     48 world records on HPE ProLiant servers using AMD EPYC processors: https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/epyc-world-records.html

2.     Up to 35% performance increase compared to HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers based on 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. SPEC and the names SPEC CPU, SPECrate, SPECspeed are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 10-10-24; see spec.org

3.     Up to 25% better energy efficiency compared to HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers based on 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors. SPEC and the name SPECpower_ssj 2008 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 10-10-24; see spec.org.

4.     #1 SPECspeed2017_int, #1 SPECspeed2017_fp, #1 SPECrate2017_int, and #1 SPECrate2017_fp result for AMD EPYC 8004 series. SPEC and the names SPEC CPU, SPECrate, SPECspeed are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published a

5.     s of 10-10-24; see spec.org.

6.     #1 SPECpower_ssj 2008 result for AMD EPYC 8004 series on Linux - SPEC and the names SPECpower_ssj 2008 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 10-10-24; see spec.org. SPECpower_ssj 2008: #1444

7.     VMware® VMmark® is a product of VMware. The competitive benchmark claims are based on being the best 768 total cores on the VMmark 4.0.1 benchmark, with a score of 7.36 @ 8 tiles.  Results as of October 10,2024. VMmark disclosures are available at https://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results4x

8.     TPC Benchmark™ H (TPC-H) performance as of October 10, 2024. See tpc.org for more information. Claim based on having the #1 performance for a non-clustered system on the TPC-H @ 3000GB scale factor. Configuration: 1 HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 server used 2 AMD EPYC 9575F 3.29 GHz processor; 2 socket/128 cores/256 threads; Microsoft Windows Server 2025; Microsoft® SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition. TPC-H results show the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 with a result of 3,401,383 QphH @ 3000GB and $350 USD/kQphH @ 3000GB with a system availability of 2nd December, 2024; see www.tpc.org/3395 for details

9.     TPC Benchmark™ H (TPC-H) performance as of October 10, 2024. See tpc.org for more information. Claim based on having the #1 performance for a non-clustered 1P system on the TPC-H @ 3000GB scale factor. Configuration: 1 HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen11 server used 1 AMD EPYC 9655P 2.6 GHz processor; 1 socket/96 cores/192 threads; Microsoft Windows Server 2022; Microsoft® SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition. TPC-H results show the HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen11 with a result of 2,549,209.1 QphH @ 3000GB and $333.84 USD/QphH @ 3000GB with a system availability of 10th October, 2024; see www.tpc.org/3396 for details.

10.   SPEC and the name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 10-10-24; see spec.org. #1434, #1435, #1357, #1358, #1359, #1360

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