AMD Opteron vs Intel Xeon: Database Performance Shootout

[Per Hansson]

Anandtech has done a 2 and 4-way Intel vs AMD platform database performance test. Their results where very interesting, showing the weakness of the Xeon architecture and strength of the Opteron when moving to larger systems (4-way and upwards)

 

[Didou]

There are also a few good articles here ->

The Opteron Memory Guide : DDR’s Best Implementation Yet @ GamePC

Tyan Thunder K8S / AMD Opteron 246 Review @ 2CPU.com

When the Opteron's NUMA memory architecture is detected & used, it's putting out some impressive numbers.