ThinkSystem SR950 V3 Sets World Record with New SAP Quote-to-Cash Benchmark Result

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 V3, using eight Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H processors, has set a world record on SAP’s new Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) benchmark. The server has achieved best performance in the industry with the SAP Q2C benchmark.

Q2C is a brand-new load testing tool from SAP that’s used to simulate a representative modern-day production SQL load on SAP S/4HANA. The simulation is a balanced transactional order-to-cash (OLTP) workload, including a reporting component (OLAP). Lenovo has been working together with SAP on this new workload, resulting in this day-one #1 overall result.

A Q2C landscape consists of three components:

• SAP HANA database (scaleup or scaleout landscape) including a shipped HANA backup with Q2C content
• SAP ABAP application server(s) based on S/4HANA 2021 (ABAP Kernel: 789 PL201)
• Q2C driver (OS environment with tools for simulating the SAP GUI frontend)
   

The ThinkSystem SR950 V3 server achieved the following certified Q2C performance result (1):

• 265,500 aSAPS (Advanced SAPS) with 160 million initial documents (2-tier)
• Throughput:
  • 5,309,757 fully processed order line items per hour 
  • 18,053,177 dialog steps per hour
  • 52,500 SAP Q2C benchmark users
  • 0.47s average dialog response time
     

This is the first Q2C result published on SAP benchmark website.

The ThinkSystem SR950 V3 server that achieved this record level of SAP performance was configured in a 2-tier configuration as follows:

• 8x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H 60-core 1.90GHz processors
  • 8 processors, 480 cores, 960 threads in total
  • 80 KB L1 cache and 2048 KB L2 cache per core, 112.5 MB L3 cache per processor
• 8192 GB of Lenovo TruDDR5 memory - 128 x 64GB DDR RDIMM, 4400MT/s
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
• SAP HANA 2.0 Revision 79
• SAP S/4HANA Server 2021
   

Results referenced are current as of February 10, 2025. For the latest SAP Q2C benchmark results, visit: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2018-benchmark-directory/#/q2c.

(1) This benchmark fully complies with the SAP Benchmark Council regulations and has been audited and certified by SAP SE. Details are available at https://www.sap.com/dmc/benchmark/2025/Cert25002.pdf. The benchmark was performed in Bucharest, Romania by Lenovo engineers. 

The Lenovo SR950 V3 is an 8-socket server that features an 8U rack design, with two 4U units cabled together for ease of installation. The server offers technology advances, including 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and scale-up capacity of up to 32TB of system memory, up to 14x PCIe slots (6x front, 8x rear), and up to 16x 2.5-inch or 16x E3.S EDSFF drive bays.

The SR950 V3 is designed for the most demanding, mission-critical workloads, such as in-memory databases, large transactional databases, real-time analytics, ERP, CRM, and virtualized server workloads.

Q2C (Quote-to-Cash) is a load test tool used to execute a representative modern-day production SQL load on S/4HANA. The load simulation is a balanced mix of a transactional order-to-cash workload (OLTP) with a reporting component (OLAP).

For benchmarking, it is used with the Q2C scenario in a 2-tier environment, where SAP HANA and ABAP application server components are running on the same server.

Q2C results are reported in aSAPS (Advanced SAPS), where 100 aSAPS is defined as 2,000 fully business processed order line items per hour in combination with the throughput of 2 OLAP queries per hour. SAP Q2C is therefore using an advanced throughput metric which contains OLTP and OLAP to calculate aSAPS. For further information on SAPS and aSAPS, see https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark/measuring.html. 

Q2Ctest result metrics include a throughput number (business transactions per hour - tph) as well as database request times (in ms) for transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) components of the workload,
and the system's CPU load (utilization). All numbers are averages over an interval of constant high load. The typical main goal in the load test is to increase the concurrent number of users until the throughput gets to a saturation point. It is also possible to compare database request times for similar setups, but this requires a low or medium load.

For more information about the benchmark, see https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark/appbm/q2c.html.
 

To learn more about SAP solutions on Lenovo servers visit the following page:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/solutions/sap/

To learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 V3 server, visit the SR950 V3 product web page:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/servers-storage/servers/mission-critical/thinksystem-sr950-v3/len21ts0023