Greetings,

Whats your take?

Opteron vs. EM64T??

I haven't given Processors much thought in a while, just been buying Intel, for no real reason??!
I was at the DesktopLinux Summit, a week or so ago, and saw AMD, and told them that everyone is just selling/pushing more Intel, I played with a Opteron running SLES 9, and spoke with them for a few... It really seemed nice, and fast, (of course it was an AMD Demo system) and researching seems the price is right...

But can't really find any good comparisons or trustworthy ones...

I have several servers to buy, and wanted to get your opinion...
File & Print? Oracle Database? Blades? What would you buy?

EM64T or Opteron?

Thanks in Advance...

I would go for Opterons because they are cheaper and dissipates less heat. Also they are pure 64-bit processors instead of using additional 32-bit instructions to be like 64-bit instructions which EM64T is.

If you read the review that anandtech did to compare Xeon and Opterons, the benchmarks did not give good results. This is because they used different processor models on the Opteron board that made me skeptical that Xeons are faster than Opterons. It was not a fair benchmark.

So the Intel true 64 isn't out yet, I guess... Boy they (Intel) are a great Marketing Machine... The Code word: Nocona was throwing me off...

I hate those comparisons, you never know what is the truth...
AMD it will be!! I just wanted to hear it from a peer...
Thanks for your response...

remember back in the 90's when amd had to reverse engineer MMX MMX+ and SSE from intel.

well it gave the AMD processors a reputation of not being completely compatible and unstable when using those features.

When running programs optimised to use those Extensions some AMD didnt run them as naturally as Intels Pentium lines.


Well this time 64bit is AMD's doing their rules and Intel substandard reverse engineering so there is a good chance Intel will suffer a substandard AMD64bit software performance.



For me AMD is a guarentee of 64bit stability and critical uptime.

I bought the e326 2.4 Opteron, running SLES 9...

It is soooo smokin fast!!!
LDAP/SAMBA PDC, MAIL & ERP... Smoking!

Thanks for your help.