AnandTech’s Johan de Gelas has taken a look at AMD and Intel quad-socket servers. The quad-socket six-core Intel Xeon X7460 at 2.66 GHz is compared to the quad-socket four-core Shanghai-based Opteron 8384 at 2.7 GHz. And what were the results of a test using VMware’s ESX Server 3.5?
##CONTINUE##Shanghai’s 16 cores outperformed Dunnington’s 24 cores (or 48 if HyperThreading was used) by 6.5% or 8.8% depending on whether or not IBM or Dell’s chipset was used. But if we normalize that out per core, Shanghai outperforms by 59.8% (per core) or 63.2%. That is unbelievable!
The test systems can be inspected to see the setup, though it doesn’t even show the X7460 listed. Considering the number of tiles shown on the virtualization page, it should have had the same amount of memory and be commensurate in terms of computing power - meaning with or without HyperThreading, the performance didn’t vary much from what would be expected.
Now, when we consider how powerful the Shanghai design is on virtualization with VMware ESX Server 3.5, that’s not the end of the story. The next page shows pricing. Opteron 8384s come in at $2149, while Xeon X7460s come in at $2729 each. Also, the Xeons consume far more power with six cores per CPU.
For the time being, Opteron 8384 is looking like the ultimate server CPU for virtualized applications. And even the other benchmarks showed significant prowess from AMD’s highest-end server. Kudos to AMD!
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BY Rick Hodgin
Source：geek.com
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