Re: AMD vs Intel

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Geoff Tolley wrote:

> Jon Asher wrote:
>> Has anyone seen recent numbers comparing Postgres performance on the latest
>> AMD vs Intel chips?
>> I remember that several years ago AMD came out on top, but after a few
>> years
>> of AMD glory it looks like Intel is back....
>
> The only one I found was this comparing Opteron 275's and 280's to Xeon 5160
> (that's the Woodcrest), giving a 28% advantage to the Xeon vs the 280:
>
> http://www.vaultnetworks.com/dedicated-servers/amd-vs-intel.html
>
> This seems to quote numbers from this Anandtech article, which mentions that
> it's a dual-socket setup:
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2772&p=9
>
> Beat in mind that the Xeon costs twice as much as the 280 (can't speak for
> the platform as a whole), but it's a point of reference nonetheless.

I have a few clients running the latest Woodcrest Xeons and they outperform
the comparable Opterons at this time. If you search around on the
pgsql-perform archives, you'll likely find lots of info regarding this.

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