From: David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:59 -0600
Message-ID: <444E7F47.3010003@boreham.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145990551.23538.244.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
References: <20060425141435.6c8c163c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
<1145990018.23538.234.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
<20060425183817.GA9241@mark.mielke.cc>
<1145990551.23538.244.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
>Actually, that was from an article from this last month that compared
>the dual core intel to the amd. for every dollar spent on the intel,
>you got about half the performance of the amd. Not bigotry. fact.
>
>But don't believe me or the other people who've seen the difference. Go
>buy the Intel box. No skin off my back.
>
>
I've been doing plenty of performance evaluation on a parallel application
we're developing here : on Dual Core Opterons, P4, P4D. I can say that
the Opterons open up a can of wupass on the Intel processors. Almost 2x
the performance on our application vs. what the SpecCPU numbers would
suggest.
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