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Troy Dawson said...
|It really comes down to your application. If possible, try it on two
|comparable CPU setups, one AMD and one Intel. I've seen some wildly lopsided
|tests, try to at least give them the same amount of memory and the same disks.
|Then run your application on it, and see which is faster.
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|That's how I decided I like the Opteron. On my tests (recompiling rpm's) the
|Opteron beat the Xeon. But I saw other people with the exact same setup, and
|for them the Xeon beat the Opteron. It all came down to the application.
And that can change over time. For years
we bought only AMD-based systems, because
most of our apps consistently ran better
on them. Then we found a couple that were
decidely better on INtel. When we tested
equivalent servers for the last set of
compute farm systems, Intel won hands down.
-Miles
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