AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 2: Enterprise Performance

Final Words

Without even touching the 64-bit capabilities of Opteron, and without exploring the performance benefits of a NUMA-aware OS, AMD has an extremely capable enterprise microprocessor on their hands with Opteron.

The CPU is not only highly scalable, but also offers extremely high performance as is evident by our real-world database and web serving tests. Although Intel's 3.06GHz Xeon DP with a 1MB L2 cache will definitely eat into the Opteron's performance lead (especially on the DB side of things), it looks like AMD has done their job well in terms of threatening Xeon's throne.

Be sure to read the rest of our Opteron coverage for even more information on AMD's latest microprocessor:

AMD's Opteron Coverage - Part 1: Intro to Opteron/K8 Architecture
AMD's Opteron Coverage - Part 3: 1U Server Roundup
AMD's Opteron Coverage - Part 4: Desktop Performance