Quad-Core AMD Opteron deliver world record web performance

[thunderman]

Lets all congratulate AMD on this latest Achievement....Intel left for dust here

Article found here:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=amd&hl=en

Article:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/quad-core-amd-opterontm-processors-deliver/story.aspx?guid={A91527AE-8E1E-41EC-8CCD-79B2284ED7F3}&dist=hppr

Article Quotes:

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jul 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today's high-traffic Web-based businesses

AMD Opteron(TM) processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb(R)2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure

Web-based businesses, including hosted services for customers or internally facing business critical functions like CRM environments over a corporate intranet, often require more peak performance and scalability to handle heavy user traffic while balancing cost and power concerns

These benchmark results are the latest evidence of the clear value that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer an Internet business - or any data center that requires the ultimate in performance, reliability and power efficiency

SPECweb(R) 2005 is an objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system's ability to act as a web server, simulating simultaneous user requests for standardized web transactions such as banking, e-commerce and downloading dynamic content

With its Direct Connect Architecture, Web-based companies world-wide, including DAUM Communications, Rackspace and Strato, have benefited from Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems in their datacenter infrastructure.

AMD4Life!

 

[antonmadcow]

AMD is going to have a very short life, so it might be a good idea to change your signature.

 

[homerdog]

 

[macer1]

antonmadcow amd like IBM is seeing the bigger picture.

who buys more cpu's at a PROFITABLE % for a manufacture????



how about the millions of chips sold to cooperations, government institutions " think hospitals, government building, data centers, university's and colleges " and the countless CPU's sold just to maintain the Infer structure known as the internet.

think about if in your data cluster you can do with 700 cpus vs 900 cpus from prior to the upgrade. think of the saving for a data center being space " square footage as good luck renting office space for less then 10$ a square foot per month " cooling , power and the cost to have IT techs to keep the system running. Less is MORE.

now think about if you could save a data center 1 $ per cpu per week in power. now expand your brain past that and think 1000's of cpu's

please take your troll posts elsewhere.

 

[General_Disturbance]

Baron, is that you?

 

[jimmysmitty]

macer1 hence why Intels Larrabee and Nehalem will do well in all those areas.

As for the OP, wow big suprise. AMD does better in multi core CPU systems like always. Wow. Amazing. Oh if they are so good how come AMD has yet to break even?

What does this have to do with the desktop market again?

 

[homerdog]

Baron, is that you?

No way, Thunderman is WAY more entertaining than Baron 😀

 

[Wisecracker]

Does this mean better HD p0rn and fewer gambling losses?

Good for AMD. Hopefully better in the future above 2.3GHz with 'true' HT3. 45nm may shine on the Optys.

I'm still wunderin' when AMD chipsets will roll on the server side ....

 

[yomamafor1]

I would argue the exact opposite. Thurderman is more like 9-inch: he posts, then he runs for cover, while the rest of his threads goes down the drain.

BM on the other hand, has the balls to stand for his perspectives, no matter how wrong they are (CPU storage in styrofoam anyone?). Not to mention that BM is hilarious to argue with, as he often trips.

 

[macer1]

jimmysmitty im just stating that at the time when the life cycle of your "data" center or servers are up most management "who sign off on the expense" want to know EVERYTHING.


now if the IT department can with current technology save this company X $$$$ every year with faster equipment then to the management its a no brainer.

and lets be honest most management couldn't tell you the difference between a 3.6 ghz P4 and a e4400. All they see is the big numbers and they are sold on the product.

hell go down to a local best buy and watch people get sold on a bigger LCD over better components in the box...........

 

[jimmysmitty]

^This happens all the time yes. My own opinion is that in the next few months the whole PC market will be reshaken. Nehalem will be out for servers and desktops and that will cause AMD a bit of dismay.

But what happens in the server market rarely affects the desktop market.

 

[chunkymonster]

macer1 hence why Intels Larrabee and Nehalem will do well in all those areas.

As for the OP, wow big suprise. AMD does better in multi core CPU systems like always. Wow. Amazing. Oh if they are so good how come AMD has yet to break even?

What does this have to do with the desktop market again?

Wow! I could feel the sarcasm oozing thru my monitor as I read this...

Regardless, you gotta AMD props for pulling it together with the B3 revisions, especially after the whole TLB debacle. Better late than never in this case.

Albeit, Nehalem and/or Larabee may do well in the same areas, they are essentially unproven in the server market. AMD has already hurdled any issues with implementing an IMC processor and platform, whereas Intel will have some growing pains with Nehalem. And while AMD may have lost a little ground to Xeons in recent Quarters, it's news like this that will further embed and reinforce Opteron in the market making it that much more difficult for IT and Data Centers Managers to switch to a Nehalem platform. The new B3 opterons are a drop in solution for the Skt1207 whereas Nehalem will require an entirely new platform. That's makes it that much more difficult to justify the increased capital expense of a new platform as opposed to a drop in solution.

 

[antonmadcow]

Oh... yes... I guess that I have to back up my perspective somehow... let's see... how could I do that... hmm... how about...

$4.11! DUH!

Would the precious few people here who know how to spell "business" raise their hands? Reading the posts of the blind leading the blind AMD fans you'd think that AMD had an exemption from market economics!

These Opteron results will mean next to nothing to the clients. They are not going to invest in a chip manufacturer who may not be around next year. IT Managers got to their positions by not being myopic.

 

[homerdog]

Oh... yes... I guess that I have to back up my perspective somehow... let's see... how could I do that... hmm... how about...

$4.11! DUH!

Would the precious few people here who know how to spell "business" raise their hands? Reading the posts of the blind leading the blind AMD fans you'd think that AMD had an exemption from market economics!

These Opteron results will mean next to nothing to the clients. They are not going to invest in a chip manufacturer who may not be around next year. IT Managers got to their positions by not being myopic.

Yes, there is something weird going on with this thread. You are being incessantly downrated for stating what seems to me to be obvious truths. Even Thunderman cannot deny, AMD's well is is running dry 😛

 

[thunderman]

AMD's finances are crippled...they have the moral victory. I can see the company hitting big soon. ATI 4000 series is already destroying Nvidia and the Spider platform is unique with up to four cards in Crossfire. Four 4870's combined with the Phenom 9950 will absolutely destroy anything Nvidia and Intel can offer in games. AMD is leading the gaming market clearly with a strong platform.
What we can gather by early evidence is Nehalem is probably going to be a failure.

 

[cjl]

What evidence do you have that Nehalem will fail? If anything, the evidence shows it will be out earlier than expected, for cheaper than expected, and be a significant boost over Core.


EDIT: I love how a post simply asking for evidence gets rated down so much.

 

[skittle]

... What we can gather by early evidence is Nehalem is probably going to be a failure...

link please!?

 

[evilshuriken]

thunderman, your blind fanboyism is truly disgusting. Carry on.

 

[roadrunner197069]

LOL. How many of these post are you ganna make Thunderman?

In a few months you will be on here asking what Intel procs are better because your like the other fan boys. When the boat sinks you will jump on the ship thats there to rescue you eventually.

What about a intel quadcore @4.0 with quad xfire. Your little AMD wont even come close.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Wow! I could feel the sarcasm oozing thru my monitor as I read this...

Regardless, you gotta AMD props for pulling it together with the B3 revisions, especially after the whole TLB debacle. Better late than never in this case.

Albeit, Nehalem and/or Larabee may do well in the same areas, they are essentially unproven in the server market. AMD has already hurdled any issues with implementing an IMC processor and platform, whereas Intel will have some growing pains with Nehalem. And while AMD may have lost a little ground to Xeons in recent Quarters, it's news like this that will further embed and reinforce Opteron in the market making it that much more difficult for IT and Data Centers Managers to switch to a Nehalem platform. The new B3 opterons are a drop in solution for the Skt1207 whereas Nehalem will require an entirely new platform. That's makes it that much more difficult to justify the increased capital expense of a new platform as opposed to a drop in solution.

I was being quite sarcastic yes. But here is the interesting part. I do give AMD props for finally getting more Opterons of the B3 stepping out. I just don't see it as relevant to anything if AMDs desktop market is not doing as well.

As for Nehalem, don't judge too early. What happens when people judge a new technology before there are benchmarks? Makes them look bad if they are wrong. Everyone hyped Phenom and it wasn't anything near its hype. Nehalem may be a newbie to the IMC but Intel is not and has tried on several occasions (before AMD) to create them and I am sure they are able to make it work. We will have to wait and see.

AMD's finances are crippled...they have the moral victory. I can see the company hitting big soon. ATI 4000 series is already destroying Nvidia and the Spider platform is unique with up to four cards in Crossfire. Four 4870's combined with the Phenom 9950 will absolutely destroy anything Nvidia and Intel can offer in games. AMD is leading the gaming market clearly with a strong platform.
What we can gather by early evidence is Nehalem is probably going to be a failure.

LMAO. You forget that Intel has decently priced X38 and X48 mobos that also offer CFX at the same speed (4 8x lanes) as AMD. So lets take a 9950 with 4 4870s (or better yet 2 4870X2s in 2 x16 mode) and a Q6600 OCed to 2.6GHz (to match the 9950) and same either 4 4870s or 2 4870X2s in CFX and see which one will win.

Oh one thing, well two really, if you think AMD is a angel company you are blind. They are just as corrupt as every other company out there and they only want your money like Intel, IBM and all the others. And the second thing, I don't think that winning a moral race will pay the bills. If they fail financially thats it. Nothing short of a miracle can bring them back.

God fanboyism is fun to rip apart.

 

[NMDante]

What evidence do you have that Nehalem will fail? If anything, the evidence shows it will be out earlier than expected, for cheaper than expected, and be a significant boost over Core.

link please!?

It will fail because Nehalem is a longer word than Phenom. And it's hard to market the Nehalem name. I mean, Phenom is easy. Phenom-eee-nal. w00t! That is trademarked, by the way. Try with Nehalem. Hmm.... Ne-hay....uh...yes what I mean.

You don't need links. It fails simply because it's a much longer word and hard to pronounce.

 

[jimmysmitty]

^LMAO!!!!

It will probably be Core 3 or something to that effect.

 

[roadrunner197069]

LMAO. Look at thundermans profile and look at the threads he has posted. Every single on is AMD fanboyism. AMD should be paying this guy.

 

[jimmysmitty]

^No he should be paying them due to all the damage he is doing....all the posts are just....that stupid....

 

[homerdog]

thunderman, your blind fanboyism is truly disgusting. Carry on.

:lol: How can you not see the sarcasm dripping from every one of his posts?! No -real- poster ever says things like "AMD4Life!" and "they have the moral victory" 😉