VMmark 4 Shows Scalability of Intel Xeon 6 Processors with VMware vSphere 8

Intel recently launched its latest server processor generation, Intel^® Xeon^® 6 processors with Performance-cores, which offers more cores and higher memory bandwidth. To demonstrate the performance and scalability of these processors, we’re pleased to announce new VMware VMmark® 4 benchmark results from two of our key partners, Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Dell’s result is a two-host “Matched Pair” configuration, while the HPE result benchmarks a four-host VMware vSAN cluster. Both results use VMware ESXi^™ 8.0 Update 3e, which is the initial release that supports these processors. Find these new results on the VMmark 4 Results page.

Performance Comparison: “Granite Rapids” vs. “Emerald Rapids”

As an example of how these results demonstrate excellent performance and scalability, the table below shows two VMmark 4 results that allow us to compare the previous generation “Emerald Rapids” processors to the new “Granite Rapids” 6700-series processors.

The chart below shows a 34% increase in total core count across processor generations.

In terms of VMmark performance, the score increases exactly 34% as well!

Key Highlights

• Core count: 34% more cores in Intel Xeon 6787P vs. previous-gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
• VMmark score: 34% higher than the previous generation
• Workload capacity: 35% more workload VMs (89 vs. 66)

Learn More

• Announcing VMware vSphere 8 Update 3, with ESXi Live Patching and Integrated Kubernetes Cluster Management
• VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e Release Notes
• Intel Xeon 6 Processors with Performance-Cores (P-Cores)

About VMmark

VMmark is a free benchmarking tool used by partners and customers to measure the performance, scalability, and power consumption of virtualization platforms. Visit the VMmark product page and VMmark Community for more information.