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09-22-2006, 03:24 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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SQL benchmarks: Xeon Woodcrest vs Opteron Socket F
here you have it:
http://tweakers.net/reviews/646
woodcrest vs dempsey vs opteron socket F
1-core vs 2-core vs 4-core
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09-22-2006, 04:02 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Thanks.
Great performance of Woodcrest.
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09-22-2006, 06:26 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Nice article too. Thanks!
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09-22-2006, 06:38 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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in fact, I am more interested in:
performance per watt- woodcrest 5150 is a good 43% ahead of opteron 2160
performance per cost - this is truly a shocker:
single woodcrest 5150 2-core has a higher MySQL performance than dual Opteron 2160 4-core! it also means you can use $700 1x woodcrest 5150 (65w) to beat up $1600 worth of Opteron 2160HE (68w+68w=136w) running MySQL
the cost of ECC registered DDR2 modules is going thru the roof right now, so the cost disavantage of ECC FBDIMM is minimizing fast!Last edited by cwl@apaqdigital; 09-22-2006 at 06:41 PM.
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09-22-2006, 07:30 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Good observation, Chong.
BTW, has anybody tried 5148LV? Not much review yet. Between 5148LV and 5150, which one will you prefer? Myself, I will prefer 5148LV due to the lower wattage it consumes (40W vs 65W or 38.5% power saving). Performance per watt, the 5148LV should give a better yield than 5150 compres to Opteron 2160.
And with power pricing increasing in major data centers now, it may become an important saving. Assuming Dual CPUs (4 cores) and everything else being equal, that will be a saving of 0.45 Amps per server.
I am glad we have been sticking with Intel all this time, at least now we will have something to boast back to the AMD crowdsFluid Hosting, LLC - Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud Shared and Reseller, Cloud VPS, and Cloud Hybrid Server
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09-22-2006, 09:00 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by cwl@apaqdigital
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Originally Posted by FHDave
As a note, AMD still wins the performance per watt battle by a long shot on the low end systems, single core, etc. and the Core 2 Solo still seems to be a decent way off.Karl Zimmerman - Founder & CEO of Steadfast
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09-22-2006, 10:24 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by KarlZimmer
granted, there is no server app benchmarks to put Conroe against AM2 because both are considered as "desktop" processors by the industry, but all the reviews I've seen do put core2 duo ahead of AM2 on desktop/workstation/gaming applications:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2795&p=8
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/...est/page8.html
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_cont...d=e6600&page=5
I will say that the chances are slim that AM2 will atop Conroe on server apps.
I also don't believe these heavy weight review sites have bias against AMD because they all had published very, very harsh words against Intel in the past when Intel was still in "dark" age just short while ago!
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09-23-2006, 12:08 PM #9Formerly orange-y
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Interesting benchmark because they chose the chips where the Opteron starts getting it's *** kicked. Look at these results from GamePC, which show basically the same thing: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_cont...eon5160&page=9
Notice that if you step down just one notch to a 5140, the Xeon starts losing like crazy. In particular, the 50,000 use benchmark show that the Opteron scales better and a 5140 would almost get beaten by a 265!
It's that kind of stuff that indicates that more exhaustive benchmarks need to be run. I want to see the full suite of Opteron's against the full suite of Xeons. I'm not going to buy the 5160's or 5150's, so I want to see what the "common man's" CPU will do in a battery of tests. I'd also like to see something that I can reproduce myself.Former owner of A Small Orange
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09-23-2006, 12:27 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by timdorr
VPS is certainly another area of interests of these high-power servers. any feedback of dual Woodcrest 2.0Ghz 4-core VPS node vs dual Opteron 2.0Ghz 4-core VPS node? I know you have a few of them on bothLast edited by cwl@apaqdigital; 09-23-2006 at 12:32 PM.
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09-24-2006, 11:02 PM #11Formerly orange-y
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Haven't yet filled one of those Xeon VPS nodes yet. But the Opteron one is so underloaded (it's 0.15 now!) I'm considering buying an upgraded license to fit more VPS's on that machine.
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09-25-2006, 01:10 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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On those tests the Opteron systems only have 4GB of RAM compared to the Xeons having 7GB...take that in to note too.
but still, woodcrest looks like a good investment.
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09-25-2006, 10:42 AM #13Formerly orange-y
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Originally Posted by devonblzxFormer owner of A Small Orange
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09-25-2006, 12:15 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by Tweakers.net
in fact, I ran into the same issue too! on Tyan S3970G2NR board, loads of major brand (Kingston, Micron, Corsair...) DDR2 ECC reg. modules I tried all failed left-n-right. initially, I thought the issue is caused by the BIOS for new board is just too 'green'! however, it turned out to be RAM compatibility issue: thus far, only Infineon HYB18T512800AF37 1G modules can work with Opteron 22xx on-die DDR2 memory controller flawlessly and did allow me to install 8x 1G with good reliability.
Tweaker.net also stated that 8-Gig DDR2 on Opteron F platform performs only 2% better than 4-Gig server.