Intel Xeon 3.6 (Nocona) vs. AMD Opteron 250 - Database Test

Aggressor Prime · September 13th, 2004, 10:59 am

Intel Xeon 3.6 (Nocona) - 2 Wins
AMD Opteron 250 - 3 Wins

It looks like AMD is still beating Intel, but Intel is getting closer.
More here.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » September 14th, 2004, 12:26 am

Yes, how many tests were ran in this? I cant get the link up.. And can you post the results please.. Thansk!

Aggressor Prime · September 14th, 2004, 1:07 am

There were five tests:
SQL Stress Tool Benchmark (Reads)
Xeon 3.6GHz - 105295*
Opteron 250 - 103198
SQL Stress Tool Benchmark (Writes)
Xeon 3.6GHz - 42102*
Opteron 250 - 41266
Vendor Heavy Workload Test (Reads)
Opteron 250 - 252942*
Xeon 3.6GHz - 242817
Vendor Heavy Workload Test (Writes)
Opteron 250 - 252836*
Xeon 3.6GHz - 242810
Vendor Heavy Workload Stored Procedures
Opteron 250 - 3161*
Xeon 3.6GHz - 3035

*=Winner

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » September 14th, 2004, 12:13 pm

Thanks

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » September 20th, 2004, 5:10 pm

When you start adding more CPU's Intel's Xeon will keep falling behind, further and further. You can credit that to their shared memory BUS with HTT and an on-die memory controler, Opterons bandwidth theoretical increases per CPU. Nice stuff indeed