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Dual Core AMD Opteron 2216 2.4GHz
3GB RAM 667MHz, 2x512MB and 2x1GB Single Ranked DIMMs
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Dual Core Intel Xeon 5130 2.0Ghz
2GB 533MHz (4x512MB), Single Ranked DIMMs
in general, the opteron will probably have an advantage for memory-intensive
codes; the core2 starts out with larger per-core cache and double the fp-SSE
throughput, so will probably win for cache-friendly, SSE-able FP-intense codes.
as usual, AMD and Intel are out-of-phase in product generations,
so this is basically a semi-old AMD chip versus an Intel chip designed
specifically to beat the AMD chip ;)
Here are some benchmarks I did on similar (though non-Dell) systems:
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/optxeon.pdf
with wild handwaves, I think this data supports my generalizations:
the core2 is an excellent chip which starts out faster, but tends not
to scale as well as memory load or nthreads increases. that's what
you'd expect from the generational difference, larger cache, poorer
memory infrastructure.
regards, mark hahn.
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