Benchmark

Benchmark is the section that gives the performance of the TR7 hardware platforms together with the measurement condition. Each value is written with the workload and the condition under which it was obtained; it also shows what a table giving only the peak value cannot tell, that is, what limits the value.

TR7 hardware platforms take advantage of the hardware capabilities offered by Intel processors and chipsets to accelerate cryptography and data compression operations. The TR7 software runs the cryptographic operations within TLS and the content compression workloads together with the processor instructions and hardware acceleration resources supported on the relevant platform. This approach supports more efficient use of processor resources and the processing of high traffic volumes. The acceleration mechanisms used may vary depending on the device model, the processor and chipset features, the software configuration and the workload.

Benchmark results should be evaluated together with the hardware and software configuration of the relevant platform. The test setup, workloads, metric definitions and measurement rules are described on the Test Methodology page.

Platforms Side by Side

Platform performance	H700	H7000	H17000
Processor	Intel Xeon W, 10 cores	2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable, 26 cores	2 × 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable
Form factor	1U	1U	2U
Models	H705 - H780	H7040 - H7200	H17080 - H17200
Throughput	5 - 80 Gbps	40 - 200 Gbps	80 - 200 Gbps
HTTP requests/s	1.2 - 1.8 M	3 - 4.5 M	5 - 7 M
TLS TPS (ECDSA-P256)	12,000 - 40,000	50,000 - 90,000	140,000 - 220,000
TLS throughput	5 - 40 Gbps	40 - 100 Gbps	80 - 160 Gbps
Compression throughput	5 - 30 Gbps	30 - 80 Gbps	70 - 100 Gbps
L4 HTTP RPS	1.2 - 9 M	18 - 36 M	25 - 50 M
L4 Concurrent Connections	20 - 120 M	140 - 145 M	120 - 300 M

The values are the range between the smallest and the largest model of the series; the values model by model are on the platform pages. On H7000, the L4 values are only for H7140 and H7200. The workload and condition of each row are written in the relevant section of the platform page.

Measurement conditions

L7 values belong to the device serving only L7; if L4 vServices are also defined, HTTP requests/s reads about 15% lower. Throughput values belong to the 1500-byte frame and are on the pessimistic side. Compression throughput values depend on the content. TLS TPS values are for full handshake. L4 HTTP RPS is for forwarding over established persistent connections, and L4 Concurrent Connections is for connections kept idle.

Measurement Principles

Repetition. In the measurements, peaks are taken with at least three independent runs.
Fresh boot. Measurements are taken on a freshly booted device.
Both sides are measured. In each run, the processors of the device and the load generator are sampled in the same window; if the generator is above 90%, the value is not counted as the ceiling of the device.
Measured and capacity are separated. When the generator or the network card saturates before the device, the capacity of the device is found separately and given in the capacity class.