Tyan S5502 Server/Workstation System Board

Benchmarks:

As part of our testing we ran a suite of benchmarks on the S5502. These include:

• Sisoft Sandra
• Crystal Disk Mark
• Crystal Mark
• Super Pi
• PCMark

Our Test System:

• Tyan S5502WGM3NR
• Thermaltake Chassis
• Thermaltake TR2 RX-850 Power Supply
• Nvidia Geforce GTX 280
• (4) Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 SAS Drives (RAID 0)
• Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
• Kingston 8GB DDR3 ECC Ram

Sisoft Sandra

We use Sisoft Sandra as an overall system and component benchmark to provide you with a relative score against which your performance can be measured. Most importantly in this benchmark are the scores related to the CPU which are the Arithmetic and Multimedia benchmarks.

As you can see the Tyan S5502 excels at CPU intensive tasks, this in addition to hard drive access is what servers are targeted towards. We would say the S5502 easily hits the marks here with the CPU scores surpassing those of the i7 940, 950, 860, and 860s in some areas. Similar results, but more impressive, are seen in the multimedia benchmark with the X3470 topping nearly everything in the lineup.   Our HD testing shows very low access times with relatively good transfer rates for a RAID setup. Once again we would have liked to be able to test with the onboard Marvell controller but were unable to due to technical difficulties and driver support. This may mean for some interested parties that you either wait for Tyan to fully support Windows 7 or if you are deploying any of the MS server OS’s you can go forward with confidence now. Alternatively the S5502 is available without the onboard Marvell controller at a reduced price leaving you the option to purchase your selection of an add on card of your choice.

CrystalDisk Mark

As we mentioned one of the primary functions of a server is quick access to storage media in order to serve information and files on a network. To this end we have equipped the S5502 with four Seagate drives in a RAID 0 array.  What kind of bandwidth can you expect from such a setup. . . Take a look:

From left to right these are the results of the 50, 100, and 500MB tests.

CrystalMark

As you can see this benchmark gives us scores for several of the subsystems similar to Sisoft Sandra. We include this benchmark as it is a free software you can run on your own systems for comparison. We should note that the OGL, D3D, and GDI scores were obtained with the Geforce 280 GTX installed in the system. The onboard Aspeed video card proved to have stuttering issues with Windows 7 due to the highly graphic nature of the OS.

Super PI/Mod 1.5 XS

So here we get to see the S5502 flex some of its considerable number crunching muscle as it absolutely powers through this benchmark. It achieves the 32M calculation in just over 12 minutes which places it in the category of an i7 965EE clocked in turbo mode at 3.88GHz and utilizing triple channel ram. As a reminder our CPU clocks in at 2.93GHz.

PCMark Vantage

Another reference benchmark for those who would like to compare their systems and servers against the results of our test system here.

While certainly not setting any land speed records our system does quite well and without any tweaking of the system settings. These systems meant for server and workstation roles are typically not setup for speed and rather instead for stability.

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