AMD's 3rd generation Opteron versus Intel's 45nm Xeon: a closer look
by Johan De Gelas on November 27, 2007 6:00 AM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Words of Thanks
Many people gave us assistance with this project, and we would of course like to thank them.
Trevor Lawless, Intel US
Sanjay Sharma, Intel US
Matty Bakkeren, Intel Netherlands
(www.intel.com)
Damon Muzny, AMD US
Joshua Mora, AMD US
Brett Jacobs, AMD US
(www.amd.com)
Randy Chang, ASUS
(www.asus.com)
Kelly Sasso, Crucial Technology
Benchmark configuration
Here is the list of the different configurations. We flashed all servers to the latest BIOS, and unless we add any specific comments to the contrary, the BIOS are set to default settings.
Xeon Server
1: Intel "Stoakley platform" server
Supermicro X7DWE+/X7DWN+ Bios rev 1.0
2x Xeon E5472 at 3GHz
8GB (4x2GB) Crucial Registered FB-DIMM DDR2-667 CL5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
Xeon
Server 2: Intel "Bensley platform" server
2x Xeon E5365 at 3GHz or 2x Xeon E5345 at 2.33GHz
Intel Server Board S5000PSL - Intel 5000P Chipset
8GB (4x2GB) Crucial Registered FB-DIMM DDR2-667 CL5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
Opteron 2350 Server: ASUS KFSN4-DRE
Dual Opteron 2350 2GHz
Asus KFSN4DRE BIOS version 1001.02 (8/28/2007) - NVIDIA nForce Pro 2200 chipset
8GB (4x2GB) Crucial Registered DDR2-667 CL5 ECC
NIC: Broadcom BCM5721
Opteron Socket F 1207 Server: Tyan Transport
TA26 - 2932
Dual Opteron 2222 3GHz/2224SE 3.2GHz
Tyan Thunder n3600m (S2932) - NVIDIA nForce Pro 3600 chipset
8GB (4x2GB) Crucial Registered DDR2-667 CL5 ECC
NIC: nForce Pro 3600 integrated MAC with Marvell 88E1121 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Client Configuration: Dual Opteron 850
MSI K8T Master1-FAR
4x512MB Infineon PC2700 Registered, ECC
NIC: Broadcom 5705
OS Software
64-bit SUSE Linux SLES 10 SP1 (Linux 2.6.16.46-smp x86_64)
32-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise SP1
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aeternitas - Thursday, December 13, 2007 - link
Then why are you here? Details is what technology is about!I for one have a pet peeve with tech sites that use the wrong formats in their stories. Slightly damages credibility. Not to say this is a big deal in this case, though .gif is pretty much dead, unless you use an old browser on old tech, but then why would you be reading this story?
Look on the bright side, at least this isnt a Codec vs. Codec story, where the author uses jpgs for such color-limited screenshots.
SonicIce - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - link
I think the color depth was decreased alot more than 8 bit. That image only has 33 unique colors in it. Something went wrong with the dithering maybe? 256 is usually more than enough.Justin Case - Friday, November 30, 2007 - link
Who cares? The only part that suffers is the gradient at the top, all the relevant information is there, and this file is about half the size of what a PNG would be.