On 10-06-27 09:06 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > You seem to be in favor of AMD processors over Intel. While I'll agree the > purchase cost is lower, I never trust the rated power spec of any systems, > and I always measure the actual fully-loaded power consumption of any > servers I buy. > > My lowest power server is a Dell R610 Intel, 4 cores, 8 threads, 16G ram, > 180W/190VA. > My highest power server is a Dell 2970 AMD, 4 cores, 4 threads, 8G ram, > 320w/325VA. > > Maybe I'm just buying the wrong AMD chips or something, but every time I > test it, I would estimate the AMD processors are 2-4x higher power > consumption than Intel, for equivalent processing power. >
I don't know about AMD vs. Intel, but, are these comparison with AD or DC? Are the power supplies in the two boxes the same? Until VERY recently, power supplies were very inefficient. Even the difference between and 80% and a 99% efficient power supply is quite drastic. -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ xmpp:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
