On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:08 PM, David Boreham <david_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> We went from Dunnington to Nehalem, and it was stunning how much better >> the X5675 was compared to the E7450. Sandy Bridge isn't quite that much of a >> jump though, so if you don't need that kind of bleeding-edge, you might be >> able to save some cash. This is especially true since the E5-2600 series has >> the same TDP profile and both use 32nm lithography. > > We use Opteron on a price/performance basis. Intel always seems to come up > with some way to make their low-cost processors useless (such as limiting > the amount of memory they can address). Careful with AMD, since many (I'm not sure about the latest ones) cannot saturate the memory bus when running single-threaded. So, great if you have a high concurrent workload, quite bad if you don't. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
