On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:58 AM, nicky wrote:
till 100 simultaneous visitors, the Xeon performs 24% better with MSQL 4.1.20, 30% better in MySQL 5.0.20a and 37% better in PostgreSQL 8.2-dev. In short, the Socket F Opteron doesn't stand a chance, although the Woodcrest scales better and has such a high startpoint with one core, there is no chance of beating it. We
so you think AMD is just sitting around twiddling their thumbs and saying "well, time to give up since Intel is faster today". no. there will be back-and forth between these two vendors to our benefit. I would expect next-gen AMD chips to be faster than the intels. If not, then perhaps they *should* give up :-)
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