Oracle has launched a new line of Sun x86 servers which it said were the industry’s best for running its own software.

The line is based on Intel’s Xeon E5-5600 processors and includes two new rack servers and two new blades for Oracle’s Sun Blade 6000 chassis.

Doug Fisher, corporate VP of Intel’s Software and Services group, said both companies had done a lot of co-engineering, testing and validation to create a balance between processor, memory and I/O resources of the new machines.

“As a result, Oracle’s x86 servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 offer an unprecedented ability to move large volumes of data efficiently and handle multiple millions of transactions per second,” Fisher said.

As it normally does, Oracle offered figures that show how its new products outperform comparable offerings from its rivals. The company said Sun x86 machines running its operating systems and virtualization platform cost about half as much as HP systems running VMware and Windows (acquisition, support and operating cost) and provide up to 139% return on investment.

Intel officially unveiled the Xeon E5-2600 processors based on its Sandy Bridge architecture in March. All major vendors, including Oracle, launched solutions built on the new processor around the same time.

Oracle’s hardware rivals that have built servers on the new processors include IBM, Fujitsu, Cisco, HP, Dell and others.