Intel "Harpertown" Xeon vs. AMD "Barcelona" Opteron
by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on September 18, 2007 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
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AMD System
The AMD system uses two 2.0GHz Barcelona (Opteron 2350) or two 3.0GHz Santa Rosa (Opteron 2222) processors mounted on a Tyan S3992 main board, with 8x1GB of DDR2-667 OEM memory. Internal cooling consists of five 3.5" fans and two CPU fans. Internal storage is provided by one WD1600YD hard drive, which is where the OS is installed.
Intel System
The Intel system uses two 3.0GHz Harpertown (Xeon E5472) or two 3.0GHz Clovertown (Xeon X5365) processors mounted on a Supermicro X7DWN+ main board, with 4x2GB 800MHz OEM FB-DIMMs. Internal cooling consists of three 3.5" fans. Internal storage once again comes from one WD1600YD hard drive with the OS installed.
RAID Storage
LSI Logic 8480E MegaRaid Controller
Promise VTRAK J300s SAS Chassis
12 x 146GB Fujitsu 15,000 RPM SAS Drives configured in RAID 0
Operating System/Software
Windows 2003 Enterprise x64 SP2
SQL 2005 Enterprise x64 SP2
The AMD system uses two 2.0GHz Barcelona (Opteron 2350) or two 3.0GHz Santa Rosa (Opteron 2222) processors mounted on a Tyan S3992 main board, with 8x1GB of DDR2-667 OEM memory. Internal cooling consists of five 3.5" fans and two CPU fans. Internal storage is provided by one WD1600YD hard drive, which is where the OS is installed.
Intel System
The Intel system uses two 3.0GHz Harpertown (Xeon E5472) or two 3.0GHz Clovertown (Xeon X5365) processors mounted on a Supermicro X7DWN+ main board, with 4x2GB 800MHz OEM FB-DIMMs. Internal cooling consists of three 3.5" fans. Internal storage once again comes from one WD1600YD hard drive with the OS installed.
 Harpertown System |
 Barcelona System |
RAID Storage
LSI Logic 8480E MegaRaid Controller
Promise VTRAK J300s SAS Chassis
12 x 146GB Fujitsu 15,000 RPM SAS Drives configured in RAID 0
Operating System/Software
Windows 2003 Enterprise x64 SP2
SQL 2005 Enterprise x64 SP2
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Jason Clark - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
Ross and I did not have 2.5Ghz, it was nearly impossible just getting ahold of 2.0GHz.... We'd run it if we had it :)Regs - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Hi Derek Johan De Gelas mentioned that had 2.5 GHz part in your tech labs. Can we expect a preview of that soon?Regs - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Whoops, I confused you Jason for Derek Wilson.Viditor - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
Which stepping of Barcelona were you using (it wasn't in the test setup and has become an issue of late)Cheers
firewolfsm - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
This review seems biased. If you want to run only the 2GHz part at least calculate the performance per clock because it looks like Barcelona has Intel beat in a lot of the benchmarks. Meaning 2.5GHz would be much more competitive.firewolfsm - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
Sorry for the double...GlassHouse69 - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
Well. It looks like AMD wins. Money is everything. Oh sure, there will be some geek who will say, "Money is no object, only getting the workload done as fast as possible." that geek would be wrong. Amazing how this WOULDNT start a price war. 400 vs.... 2.5-3x that much? You could put four on a board and start rocking in the free world.Makes me happy about Phenom. Imagine a 190 dollar quad that isnt intel? something to buy finally.