Intel, AMD and Linux, oh my.
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AnandTech, one of the web’s premier hardware review sites, caused quite a stir when they recently pitted an Intel 64 bit processor against one from AMD.
“Our preliminary look at Intel’s 64-bit Xeon 3.6GHz Nocona (which happens to be identical to the Intel 3.6F Pentium 4) stirred up a bit of controversy. The largest two concerns were: We tested Intel’s Xeon server processor against an Athlon desktop CPU and we chose poor benchmarks
to illustrate the capabilities of those processors.” So the rematch has been made, this time between an AMD Opteron 150 (130nm, 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 Cache) and an Intel Xeon 3.6GHz (90nm, 1MB L2 Cache) running SuSE 9.1 Professional (64 bit), Linux 2.6.4-52-default and Linux 2.6.4-52-smp. You can see the benchmark results here.