Eight Core Servers: Opteron 880 (Egypt) vs. Xeon MP 3.0 GHz (Paxville)
by Jason Clark on April 24, 2006 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Benchmark Results
The Opteron leads the way in every test, which isn't surprising. As we've said in the past the current Xeon is hindered by the front-side bus. Trying to shove a giant beach ball into a basket ball hoop - with thirty other people waiting to try the same thing - has a serious impact on scalability. All of the tests are fairly consistent, and the Opteron averages a 36-51% lead over the Paxville system.
The forum test represents a medium workload OLTP application, and the Opteron comes out ahead by approximately 36%.
Opteron averages anywhere from 40-51% over Paxville during this test, representative of a medium workload OLTP application.
The Opteron leads the way in every test, which isn't surprising. As we've said in the past the current Xeon is hindered by the front-side bus. Trying to shove a giant beach ball into a basket ball hoop - with thirty other people waiting to try the same thing - has a serious impact on scalability. All of the tests are fairly consistent, and the Opteron averages a 36-51% lead over the Paxville system.
The forum test represents a medium workload OLTP application, and the Opteron comes out ahead by approximately 36%.
Opteron averages anywhere from 40-51% over Paxville during this test, representative of a medium workload OLTP application.
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coldpower27 - Monday, April 24, 2006 - link
Xeon MP will take some time to transistion to Core Architecture, were looking at Q1 2007 at the earliest, with the introduction of Tigerton hopefully.In the meantime Intel will update this platform with Tulsa, which still wouldn't be that competitive, but a step in the right direction.
Jason Clark - Monday, April 24, 2006 - link
I agree, it is getting a bit old discussing the older platforms, but this is a fairly new platform. Things will get more interesting later this year.Furen - Monday, April 24, 2006 - link
The 2.8GHz Paxville DP is the chip that came out on Q4, 2005Ozenmacher - Monday, April 24, 2006 - link
I think the title should be Eight Core Servers ;)JarredWalton - Monday, April 24, 2006 - link
Yup. Fixed. My error, not Jason's.