Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs - Mailing list pgsql-performance

David Boreham wrote:
>
>> 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.

Because Stone Cold Said So!

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