AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 2: Enterprise Performance

AnandTech Website Database Performance

The AnandTech Website DB is much less I/O bound than the Forums DB, simply because we're dealing with a much smaller database whose access pattern is mostly composed of selects (reads). Here it's quite easy to find yourself CPU bound:

AnandTech Website Database Performance Transactions per Second AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Opteron 242 (1.60GHz) Intel Xeon 2.80GHz AMD Opteron 240 (1.40GHz) AMD Athlon MP 2400+ (2.00GHz) 1002.3 920.0 885.4 823.7 819.5 | 0 | 200 | 401 | 601 | 802 | 1002 | 1203

The Opteron does extremely well here, not only outperforming its predecessor but also the 2.80GHz Xeon (with Hyper Threading enabled) by a good 13%.