AMD Opteron Benchmarks

April 22, 2003 6:42 AM

Well, the AMD 64bit Opteron CPU has shown up to play, the only three reviews right now are available at AcesHardware , AMDZone , and Tomshardware. From the few benchmark images that I was actually able to load it looks like the Opteron beats out the 3GHz Xeon chips pretty handily when it comes to server related stuff like running SQL. If you were thinking about running one on your desktop though it's probably not worth it. We'll have to wait and see how the Athlon64 chip shapes up when that one comes along. Oh hey, Tomshardware drew a similar conclusion:

In the extensive benchmark tests under Linux Enterprise Server 8 (32-bit as well as 64-bit), the AMD Opteron made a good impression. Especially in the server disciplines, the benchmarks (MySQL, Whetstone, ARC 2D, NPB, etc.) show quite clearly that the Dual Opteron puts the Dual Xeon in its place.

update: More info @ AMD website , Linux Magazine , Newsforge (Thanks /.), HardOCP.

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skold

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April 22, 2003 6:43 AM

i like the pics best. i havent got to the benchmarks yet. god its slow :/
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  April 22, 2003 6:52 AM
  
  it trounces the xeon on all the linux benchmarks, apparently the windows ones are closer with xeon on top by a bit
  
  still a strong showing by AMD
  
  the memory bandwidth one is absurd though its like
  
  p4 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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