Specifications

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Technology Overview
Xserve G5
NetBench SMB
Xserve G5 provides the best balance of processor, network, and disk performance—
critical for delivering file services to large numbers of network clients.
With more than 12 NetBench clients, Xserve G5 with Mac OS X Server delivers Windows
file services significantly faster than the Xeon-based server with Windows Server 2003,
and its performance remains high even as clients are added to the network.
WebBench
For fast network throughput, Xserve G5 features dual onboard Gigabit Ethernet control-
lers, as well as optimized network drivers and a high-performance BSD network stack in
Mac OS X Server. Apple used WebBench from VeriTest to demonstrate the superior web
server performance of Xserve G5 based on the number of connections each server can
support.
Xserve G5 easily supports a large number of network connections. With more than
16 WebBench clients, it outperforms the Xeon- and Opteron-based servers, and its
performance advantage increases as clients are added to the network.
Apple performed the NetBench and WebBench tests without the supervision or verification of VeriTest, which makes no
representation or warranty of the results. VeriTest WebBench version 4.1 was used with the standard test suite STATIC_WB41.TST,
with the threads variable set to 5 and with 28 client computers. For the WebBench test, Xserve G5 ran Apache 1.3; the IBM systems
ran Apache 2.0.
WebBench: Apache Web Serving
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7000
8000
Simultaneous clients
Requests per second
Dual 2GHz Xserve G5
Dual 2GHz IBM eServer x325
Dual 3.2GHz IBM eServer x335
NetBench SMB: Windows File Serving
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40
80
12 0
160
200
Simultaneous clients
Megabits per second
Xserve G5
with Mac OS X Server
IBM eServer x335
with Windows Server 2003