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Are there any known and sound benchmarks comparing a standard Windows Server 2008 with a Server Core installation? I guess a realistic workload like SQL Server or a web application running under IIS would be important.

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  • I don't think Core vs server was done to provide a performance gain, although it likely would in a large enough environment. I think the driver is to reduce the vulnerability footprint
    – uSlackr
    Apr 13, 2012 at 13:47
  • @uSlackr, I think you are right but one might argue that less memory usage and less CPU cache churn might improve performance. Also, less periodic background activity.
    – usr
    Apr 13, 2012 at 13:49
  • The RAM footprint is certainly smaller, but I don't think it will have much impact on CPU cycles, to be honest.
    – MDMarra
    Apr 13, 2012 at 14:05
  • @MDMarra that might be true, but it would be interesting to know for sure!
    – usr
    Apr 13, 2012 at 14:05

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Just benchmark these services like you normally would with command-line tools that work on both like sqlio.

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