Hexus.net har kigget nærmere på to servere, den ene er baseret på to styk AMD's Opteron 244 1.8 GHz, den anden på to styk Intel's Xeon 3.06 GHz. Førstnævnte klarer sig bedst, hvilket man også kan se i konklusionen:
I think it's fair to say that the Opteron is a sterling enterprise performer, even based on the limited suite of tests I was able to run. The performance results from my testing tally with other enterprise based evaluations of the platform that you can find elsewhere. It's also fair to say that the majority of the performance comes from a couple of crucial design decisions that AMD made early in the life of the new CPU.
The onboard memory controller and L2 cache setup are near perfectly set for extracting maximum performance from whatever operating mode the Opteron happens to be executing code in. Coupled with the fact that the Opteron can execute code in a mixed operating environment with a compatible operating system and they have created the server platform that the enterprise was asking for.
A cheap, high performance platform for server deployment running x86 code with 64-bit capabilities. AMD have delivered. Class leading 32-bit performance seems a most welcome by-product.
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