Dell PowerEdge R770AP review: what its benchmarks show

ServeTheHome reports that a Dell PowerEdge R770AP with two Intel Xeon 6980P processors scored 17,827 with one agent and 198,880 in a 16×32 split in its AgentSTH V7 test. The sweep kept the total at 512 logical workers, so those results are about 11.16× apart on the benchmark’s own index. Dell publishes separate SPEC CPU 2026 results for two R770AP processor configurations, using a different benchmark and scale.

AgentSTH V7 held the worker count at 512

ServeTheHome’s test used an R770AP with two Xeon 6980P processors. In its AgentSTH V7 split sweep, the total remained 512 logical workers as the number of agents changed. The aggregate index is a weighted geometric mean of scores from the benchmark’s subtests.

The 16×32 result is about 11.16 times the one-agent score (198,880 ÷ 17,827). That ratio describes this self-normalized AgentSTH V7 index; it is not a general-purpose throughput figure. The highest average score per agent came from the 4×128 split, at 26,383. For 16×32, ServeTheHome reports 12,430 per agent and 30.3% contention. The split with the largest aggregate score, in other words, did not have the highest score per agent.

ServeTheHome also reports intra-socket median core-to-core latency across distinct physical-core pairs: 149.374 ns for socket 0 and 152.275 ns for socket 1. For socket 1, the reported minimum was 65.346 ns and maximum was 220.454 ns. The reviewer reported a net uplift of about 31.7% with SMT enabled in Xeon 6980P runs.

Read each result within its own test: AgentSTH V7 compares workload splits on its index, while SPEC CPU 2026 reports scores for named benchmark categories.

Dell’s SPEC CPU 2026 results cover two R770AP configurations

Dell lists results for an R770AP with two Xeon 6980P processors and 256 cores, and another with two Xeon 6978P processors and 240 cores. These are Dell-published SPEC CPU 2026 results, not measurements from ServeTheHome’s AgentSTH V7 sweep. Dell says the results were published in May 2026; its article presenting them was published on October 20, 2026. Dell’s SPEC CPU 2026 results lists these scores:

The table compares the two R770AP entries on score categories reported for both. Each result belongs to its listed processor configuration; the different core counts and processor models also mean the figures do not isolate the effect of the chassis alone.

The tested system’s hardware context

ServeTheHome describes the R770AP as a 2U, air-cooled, dual-socket server. Its example configuration had four Dell DC NVMe CD8P E3.S MU SSDs rated at 1.6 TB each, for 6.4 TB in nominal drive-label capacity (4 × 1.6 TB). That sum is not a usable-capacity figure. The review also describes a rear BOSS-N1 DC-MHS boot module with two 480 GB M.2 NVMe drives in RAID 1.

AgentSTH V7’s index and Dell’s SPEC CPU 2026 scores use different benchmark methods and scales. Their values therefore describe separate results rather than a shared performance ranking.