On 6/28/06, Hans Kristian Rosbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 06:06 -0400, Wil Reichert wrote:
> Nope, looks like Intel is sticking with the bus for now, at least in
> their new Woodcrest chips. For a performance boost they've gone a
> with a dual bus design (one per core) and sped it up considerably.
Sounds a bit strange..
> Doesn't seem most server workloads are memory limited tho.
My server workloads most certainly are memory limited, but that
is mostly image analysis and such. This means several hundred megs
of bitmaps in memory that need to be compared and then new ones
created with the data from the analysis.
At work we have ~150 Intel servers (P4 and up only) and about 30
AMD servers. All new ones being ordered are AMD.
~80% is servers from Supermicro.
What we see is a _HUGE_ boost in database performance.
Also mailgateways (spam/antivirus scanning) gets a very nice boost.
We havent noticed any difference for webhosting servers.
-HK
Opterons have long since had a performance advantage over the netburst
architecture. While memory bandwidth plays a part in that, a lot of
that can be contributed to other factors as well such as the latency
advantage of the on die controller and shorter pipeline, etc.
Friend on mine works on a render farm for a movie studio. They did
some side by side comparisons of AMD vs. the new Intel chips & the
Intel ones showed a solid performance boost.
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