SQL2012EE on Win2K8R2 active-passive 128GB RAM single 6-core E5-2640 @ 2.5 GHz on Dell R720 runs at:

- Transaction/sec: 13800 peak, 1600 average excluding peaks.

- 1170 Batches/sec peak, otherwise between 100 and 800 per monitored minute.

- 15 peak active sessions, 3/minute normal average.

- 12MB/sec peak Physical IO, 1MB/sec average otherwise.

- Page life expectancy 300,000.

- 500 Log Flushes/sec peak, 350 average.

- 58% CPU Utilization max for 1 minute in every 10, otherwise under 10%.

Specifications for the machine courtesy of Glenn Berry's excellent blog posts.