ASUS Servers Lead SPEC Power Ranking for Energy Efficiency

2020/05/13

ASUS RS720-E9-RS8 and RS500A-E10-PS4 rack servers achieved the highest scores for both the Intel and AMD platforms on power and performance benchmarks



KEY POINTS
  • ASUS servers hold the top rankings for energy efficiency on the SPEC Power® suite of server benchmarks, as of April 16, 2020.
  • The Intel-based RS720-E9-RS8 and AMD-based RS500A-E10-PS4 rack servers achieved the rankings on both the Windows Server and Linux operating systems.
  • ASUS Thermal Radar 2.0 provides real-time server temperature monitoring and intelligent fan-curve adjustments for lower fan power-consumption.
  • ASUS Power Balancer adjusts overall loading automatically based on real-time monitoring in order to decrease overall power consumption.


Singapore, May 11, 2020 - ASUS, the leading IT company in server systems, server motherboards, and workstations today announced that ASUS servers achieved the highest rankings on the SPEC Power® suite of benchmarks for energy efficiency performed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC, www.spec.org). ASUS selected the Intel-based RS720-E9-RS8 and AMD-based RS500A-E10-PS4 rack servers for these benchmarks to show the power and performance characteristics of ASUS servers on both CPU platforms and to demonstrate to customers how they can achieve faster deployments and higher energy efficiency for their IT infrastructures. These servers were tested using both Windows Server and Linux — the most popular operating systems used in data centers — to ensure the benchmarks results are relevant to real-world performance and operating conditions. These results are current as of April 16, 2020.

ASUS Thermal Control Technologies

Green awareness and power consumption have become important topics in the server industry in recent years, especially as more datacenters require better computing performance, more storage space and quicker connections, while also requiring better power efficiency. In 2019, ASUS launched a server thermal-control technology called Thermal Radar 2.0, which provides real-time server temperature monitoring and intelligent fan-curve adjustments for lower fan power-consumption. With the recent launch of the latest 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, ASUS released a new power-saving technology called Power Balancer designed to continue delivering the value of optimized power-efficiency technology.

ASUS Thermal Radar 2.0

ASUS Thermal Radar 2.0 takes advantage of placing up to 56 ambient sensors on the front panel of a server as well as in components, such as CPUs, memory, NVMe SSDs, OCP mezzanine connectors and power supplies for internal and external temperature monitoring. Thermal Radar 2.0 can also perform intelligent fan-curve adjustments to fit the real-time server usage patterns, lowering fan power-consumption by up to 36% and reducing total cost of ownership — ideal for data centers with extreme workloads.

ASUS Power Balancer

ASUS Power Balancer is an exclusive technology that enables ASUS servers to adjust