Sun Ultra 20 M2的性能测试

I’ve been working with a Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation, running Solaris 10 and Windows XP, over the past couple of weeks. While I’m going to write up my impressions of the Sun Ultra 20 M2 sometime soon, I thought I’d share some of the performance results I’ve collected on the Ultra 20 M2, especially now that Geekbench runs on Solaris.

Setup

Here’s the configuration of the Sun Ultra 20 M2:

• AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1210
• 512 MB DDR2-667 (1 DIMM)
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or
• Solaris 10 (6/06 Update)
• Geekbench 2006 (build 230)

I’m reporting the baseline score, rather than the raw score, for each benchmark (where a score of 100 is the score a Power Mac G5 1.6GHz would receive). Higher is better.

Conclusion

Overall, I’m pleased with the performance of the Sun Ultra 20 M2. While this model (with an Opteron 1210) isn’t quite as fast as a low-end Mac Pro, it’s less than half the price of a low-end Mac Pro. Models equipped with faster Opterons (like the Opteron 1218) will certainly be more competitive when it comes to performance.

Another thing worth mentioning is that Solaris (and the Sun Studio compiler) outperformed Windows (and Visual C++) by almost 15%. Solaris outperformed Windows in almost every benchmark category, even outperforming Windows dramatically in some specific tests (such as some of the floating point benchmarks). If you’re working with processor-intensive tasks, Solaris might be the operating system for you.